The law project regarding the national security makes the secret services more powerful. They couldn’t complain about the lack of freedom until now. There weren’t too much remarkable results however. During the last 15 years, our terrible secret services’ agents haven’t been able to "discover" their fellow "undercover" businesspersons.

A lot of the foreign businessmen that came to Romania after 1990 have proved to be coordinators of certain mafia networks. Moreover, no matter their origin, some of these people have had double lives; they were former employees of several foreign secret services. Muslims, Jews or Europeans from many countries, the soldiers that came "dressed-up" as honest businessmen moved freely in Romania, managing to create real "financial empires". Huge sums of money from the national budget have been "wrinkled" with their help and transferred to other countries. Theoretically, any of the former foreign soldiers should have been watched by our secret services. Practically, the "undercover businesspersons" have acted with the tacit agreement of the authorities many times. Awkwardly, the double identity of such people has been "revealed" only after their affairs have been brought to light and caused huge scandals. These scandals often led to occult fights between the secret services or between different sides of the same service. The secret services remembered they have been monitoring those businessmen for a while only in crisis situations. There were also situations in which, after the scandals burst, there were voices saying that part of these "undercover businesspersons" have benefited from the protection of several politicians.

UNDER THE SERVICES’ SURVEILLANCE. The strange kidnapping of the three Romanian journalists last year in Baghdad, brought the eyes back on the Muslim mafia groups as well as on Omar Hayssam, a busines