penal investigation bodies. "We cannot understand how was it possible to assign (for the office) a character who was proved to have been involved in the suppression of the revolution on December 22 in Cluj", said Gheorghe Pastor, head of the Association for the Truth about the Revolution in Cluj. Jonathan Scheele, head of the European Commission's Delegation to Romania, this week is to go to Vrancea county where he is to attend a debate on the freedom of expression and independence in the mass-media. The meeting, which is to be attended by journalists in the county, is held because Vrancea is a county where several incidents against the freedom of expression of the press took place over the last four years. The policemen of the economic and judicial department of the Bacau county police inspectorate started on Friday evening to identify the assets of controversial businessman Corneliu Iacobov, who is prosecuted in the Rafo affair, and put them under sequester following a decree issued in this respect by the prosecutors of the High Court of Cassation and Justice. The list of Iacobov's assets is almost 13 pages long, but checks are being conducted to see if the list is accurate. The police officers found that since the summer of 2003, Iacobov has started to sell his companies and save money in cash. At present, he is associated in only a few companies, including Turistica Ltd, which owned the villa in Eforie Sud resort. His decisive move was to divorce his wife Geanina, and when partition was carried out he agreed that all assets be transferred under the ownership of his wife, including a luxury flat, a villa In Bacau town and a villa in a neighbouring village, a four-storey store and a 14-storey hotel. Even if Iacobov is no longer the owner of the assets, the law allows that sequester be put on all assets owned by his former wife. Lawyer Gabriel Zbircea lef