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| MEDIA HEADLINES 30/06/2009 |
| (2009-06-30) |
| Last updated: 2009-07-01 14:09 EET |
What is the connection between former and incumbent Romanian ministers representing various political parties or former high-ranked officials from intelligence services? The answer is, the fact that members of both groups are, or will be under the watchful eye of the National Anti-Corruption Directorate. Some of them, like former head of the Romanian Intelligence Service Radu Timofte, are already being prosecuted. According to the daily paper Romania Libera, Timofte has been prosecuted by the National Anti-Corruption Directorate for having illegally bought a dwelling in a residential area in Bucharest given to him on account of his job at a suspiciously low price. He was charged with incitement to abuse in the office against public interest and making false statements. The prejudice was valued at 165 thousand euros.
The newspaper Evenimentul Zilei says that anti-corruption prosecutors also demand the head of Ovidiu Musetescu, former social-democrat minister of privatization. The Prosecutor’s Office has called on President Traian Basescu to allow them to begin Musetescu's prosecution. Investigators have found clues that Musetescu undervalued the parcel of state-owned stocks in two industrial companies that were being privatized. From acts that may constitute criminal offences, the papers also write about allegations concerning two ministers from the current coalition government.
One of them is Nicolae Nemirschi, social-democrat minister of the Environment, who is suspected of having unlawfully granted a European funded contract. A parliamentary commission will investigate the case, while another parliamentary commission will look into the case of the second minister accused of unlawful behaviour, Monica Iacob Ridzi. Minister of Youth and Sport; she is accused of having wasted over 600 thousand euros on events that were, in fact, masked publicity for herself and Elena Basescu, the president's youngest daughter, who was eventually elected a member of the European Parliament. The daily Gandul writes that QUOTE “Ridzi informed Parliament that the investigation had ceased” UNQUOTE.
Minister Ridzi, also a member of the Chamber of Deputies, claims that this case is also being investigated by the National Anti-Corruption Directorate, and according to the law, investigations made by the Parliament cannot overlap the judicial ones. However, “The Ridzi case continues”, writes Jurnalul National, on account of efforts made by an ad-hoc parliamentary coalition against the Liberal-Democratic Party.
Giving coverage to political nepotism and contracts given to political cronies, the papers write about actions undertaken by Elena Udrea, Minister of Tourism. Cotidianul writes about all of them in a satirical manner. QUOTE: “Who could now believe in the weeping calls to solidarity in times of austerity made by tiny prime-minister Boc and his puppeteer Basescu, when neither of them has done anything to hold either Ridzi, Udrea or Nemirschi accountable for their conclusion of preferential contracts with political cronies” UNQUOTE.
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