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| MEDIA HEADLINES 13/05/20009 |
| (2009-05-13) |
| Last updated: 2009-05-14 13:14 EET |
“The assets of seven cabinet ministers and four Bucharest sector mayors are verified by the National Integrity Agency, reads an announcement made by the Agency’s president Alexandru Macovei carried by the daily paper Romania Libera. The Agency will look into how the investigated people obtained their wealth and whether they made any false statements in official documents. The ministers targeted by the investigations are, according to the paper, the independent minister of justice Catalin Predoiu, the Liberal Democrats Adriean Videanu, minister of the economy, and Radu Berceanu, the transport minister, the Finance Minister Gheorghe Pogea, and Mihai Stanisoara, the defence minister, and two Social Democrats, Ilie Sarbu, the agriculture minister, and Dan Nica, the minister of the interior. Nica’s presence on the Agency’s list is also confirmed by the daily paper Ziua, which reads that the Agency started to investigate him following an article published by the satirical weekly Academia Catavencu.
The National Integrity Agency inspectors are looking, in Nica’s case, at a house which witnesses say belongs to the minister, though it is registered as being owned by somebody else. Evenimentul Zilei puts the spotlight on the local administration, headlining: “The inspectors have their magnifying glass on the assets of the sector mayors Andrei Chiliman, sector 1, Neculai Ontanu, sector 2, Marian Vanghelie, sector 5, and Cristian Poteras, sector 6”. The political area of the investigations expands to the opposition, because, apart from the Social Democrats Vanghelie and Ontanu and the Liberal Democrat Poteras, the Liberal Chiliman is also targeted by the Agency’s inspectors.
While Chiliman and the sector 2 mayor claim they had no idea they were being investigated by the National Integrity Agency, mayor Vanghelie, who is also the leader of the Social Democratic Party’s Bucharest branch, admits serenely that he had known for a year about these verifications, and that it is possible he’d missed a zero when writing down the figures in his wealth declaration. The four Bucharest mayors are investigated for a range of things, from debts to inheritance and deals with private companies. What’s even more interesting is that the head of the National Integrity Agency himself may be investigated for false statement, according to the newspaper Cotidianul. Alexandru Macovei’s wife has been expected for one year to take over officially from her husband the position of company administrator. Next week, the members of the National Integrity Agency will decide whether to ask Parliament for the resignation of the Agency’s head, who may face accusations of incompatibility and false statement.
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