Cook for mafia

There has lately been taken much interest in the business of Cristian Boureanu, a deputy representing the PLD (Liberal Democrat Party), because some of his companies, the ones he is associated to or owner of, are on the list of companies indebted to the state budget, regularly posted on the Finance Ministry website. But they are not just any companies. They are business partners of the Ritzio casino Russian group, suspected of laundering the money from South American cartels. Boureanu was in charge of providing food and drinks to the mafia's guests. (...)
One of Boureanu's companies supplied caviar and drinks to 14 casinos of the Ritzio group for years. One owner of the latter Russian group is suspected of laundering money from South American cartels.
His business with Russian mafia men hiding in off-shores registered in Cyprus focussed on renting room in some casinos in Bucharest and the big cities. The trade went all right until early this year, when the Russians would no longer pay and cheated on the PLD deputy with more than 1 million ROL.
The deputy claims he hasn't been involved in the business at all, since he is a deputy disallowed to do this. He says the experienced administrator of his company decided on the partnership.
The Ritzio group does business in Russia, Ukraine, Kazahstan and the Baltic States. It has recently entered the Romanian market and it has now got 22 locations. Behind the Ritzio group, established in 2002, there are the Russian billionaires Oleg Boiko and Boris Belotserkovsky. The two of them owned 10% of Russia's gambling industry. In 2006, the group invaded Latin America all of sudden, reaching states like Bolivia, Peru and Mexico. According to sources, Oleg Boiko does business with the Latin American cartels. The Ritzio group is now facing Russian President Vladimir Putin, who wants to remove their casinos from Russian cities.

D.I.
Ziua Joi 16 August 2007 http://www.ziua.net/english