A few days ago the PSD (Social-Democrat Party) demanded the Prosecutor's Office publicly to release the criminal cases against PD (Democrat Party) leaders and businessmen in connection to the latter, cases hidden in some prosecutors' drawers. This public demand is also on the "Golden Blitz" group of interests, close to Romanian President Traian Basescu and now famous for how easy they grabbed the most profitable contracts on building national roads and highways. One of the bulkiest corruption cases deadlocked in the DNA (National Anti-Corruption Department) regards the "Golden Blitz" group.
ZIUA has reached the conclusions in the report by the National Control Agency on the auction held in the summer if 2006. By fake auction a contract of more than 200 million Euro got to the joint venture made up of SC Spedition UMB SRL , SC PA&CO International SRL, SC Euroconstruct Trading 98 SRL and Com-Axa SRL. President Basescu's good friends own the latter companies. (...)
Basescu's directions
"Take a careful look at the Romanian economic agents. Take a look at the great failures in Romanian infrastructure, whether it is about the Bucharest-Pitesti highway or about rebuilt national roads that failed. You will always find foreign general entrepreneurs and Romanian companies underneath", President Basescu was saying. He claimed the transport minister was to find a solution to consolidate Romanian economy agents by inviting them to proceed to joint and thus resist competition. "Call them and ask them to get associated so that they can participate in the substantial auctions to come. Give Romanian builders a chance !", he asked.
The directions were followed at once and the deadline for submitting offers together with the requirements for auction participants were changed so that the respective companies, which had never built a minimum of 40 kilometers of highway, could prove other accomplishments. It was the very "invention" the "Golden Blitz" group needed to join the competition. The President's friends established the joint venture Spedition UMB SRL (Dorinel Umbrarescu), PA & CO International SRL (Costel Casuneanu), Euroconstruct Trading '98 SRL (Dan Besciu and Sorin Serban Vulpescu), COM-AXA SRL (Dorinel Umbraescu). They won the action in spite of offering an unbelievably small price of 199, 97 million Euro. Experts say it is about 25-30 million Euro smaller than the real one. They were therefore relying on a future raise of the price by additional documents so that the losses would be covered for and profit would be attractive.
Razvan Savaliuc
Ziua Miercuri 15 August 2007 http://www.ziua.net/english
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