'Sex ambassadress' thought about killing Laurentiu Fulga

According to email between Stefan Pascal Lucineanu and Manuela Vulpe, Romania's ambassadress to Mexico, the man introducing himself as member of PM Tariceanu's strategy team offered to do away with the administrator of the www.spiritofromania.com with help from the Russian mafia in Sydney.
The ZIUA email address was reached yesterday by an email from John I. Pop, containing the emails between Stefan Pascal Lucineanu and Manuela Vulpe. In the email Pascal announces Manuela Vulpe he can see that Laurentiu Fulga, a Romanian who lives in Australia and is editor of the 'Spirit Romanesc' magazine, is done away with by the Russian mafia.
It is to be reminded that Laurentiu Fulga is the man who posted on the www. spiritofromania.com the emails between the Romanian ambassadress and Teodor Baconski, formerly a Romanian Presidency adviser, at present an ambassador to Paris, showing the two had an affair. He also posted the emails between the ambassadress and Dorin Marian, head the Romanian PM's Chancellery, with Vulpe asking the latter to help her buy a flat rented from the Self-Governing Department for Administration of the State Heritage and Protocol.
Here is a short fragment from an email sent by Stefan Pascal Lucineanu, claiming to have worked for the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to ambassadress Vulpe: "These guys (most of them Russian) will give F. (Fulga) a warning. Unless he is receptive, something bad will happen. What ? A misfortunate car crash". You can read the Romanian version of the entire email at www.ziua.net.

O.R. & George Tarata
Ziua Joi 16 August 2007 http://www.ziua.net/english

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

Boureanu's rise

In the front page of today's newspaper you can read surprising information in the report called "Cook for Mafia" and authored by my colleagues working for the Investigation Department. The well-known and popular politician Cristian Boureanu is at stake. He is a young, clever and educated politician who doesn't show emotion in front of TV cameras. He is spontaneous and aggressive whenever necessary. How come there is such praise of a character today's report tackles ? Is this contradiction by any chance ? Or editorial incoherence ?
By analyzing the Cristian Boureanu case we are actually proceeding to a journalistic initiative whose complexity is as profound as the idea of a reality with no angels and devils, but just with better and much worse people. As normal in the case of a politician enjoying impressing notoriety, it is true that investigative journalists are interested in reaching uneasy truths. On the other hand, the politician may enjoy the presumption of innocence until the clues or journalistic evidence are fully confirmed. Furthermore, we can even throw him a ball to catch, especially at times when the PLD (Liberal Democrat Party) is going through an extremely complex ticking race. And we wouldn't want to be suspected of standing by Stoica's games against Boureanu.
The newest Romanian party has reached a crossroads. Will the Liberals now in the PLD, together with the PD (Democrat Party), get power, in case the latter party wins elections ? Unless the PLD finds a convenient means for cohabitation with the PD, does this party stand another chance to achieve the minimum electoral score of 5% required ? No matter how strange it may seem, the answers to such questions also depend on the outcome of the domestic political confrontation Cristian Boureanu is part of. Since he is a vice president, what else can he pursue, except for leadership ?
If we simplify the scenarios on the PLD, it can be said that the party's odds for political survival and representation in Romania's future Parliament are poor or zero, unless the PLD finds a means to cling to the PD fast. If the PLD becomes the ally of the PD, Theodor Stolojan, leader of the former party, will leave, sooner or later. But he won't be sacked. He will just leave because he makes a team with Traian Basescu, one way or the other. He is hopeful that, just like the President promised, he will become a PM.
Given this, leadership over the PLD has turned into a target for dispute, as natural in politics. Given the notoriety of characters, their experience and real political force, right now there are only three applicants: Valeriu Stoica, Gheorghe Flutur and Cristian Boureanu. What chance is the last one standing ?
The leadership over the PLD depends to a great extent on the way the most important confrontation within the party, the one concerning the leadership over the Bucharest branch, is progressing. Just like in other parties, the man who heads the main branch is actually the one who rules. This is Boureanu's pursuit and therefore he wants to defeat Valeriu Stoica and have Gheorghe Flutur on his side.
In today's meeting of the PLD Executive Committee they may consider the idea of an interim president to head the Bucharest branch and appoint Boureanu, only if he is strong enough to push things to such a denouement and avoid the voting. He isn't quite ready for the voting and in such case he may get to feel the grudge of sly Valeriu Stoica.

Sorin Rosca Stanescu
Ziua Joi 16 August 2007 http://www.ziua.net/english