Romania's football industry seems feeble at the moment as scandals break one by one, newspapers on Friday read. Elsewhere in the news, a ten story building foundation appeared in Herastrau, Bucharest's biggest park. Last but not least, Romanian peasants gave up production and sell Turkish vegetables under a Romanian label.
Romania's football industry seems too feeble to resist corruption scandals, Evenimentul Zilei reads. The wave of discoveries, arrests and accusations that hunt football club owners generated an unseen reaction from Romania's Football Federation head, Mircea Sandu.
He declared that he cannot distance himself from the organism that, after the Revolution generated scandal, corruption, counter-performance and violence. He accused the press that they seek to hunt him down and urged prosecutors to stop investigating good people like Steaua football owner Gigi Becali or FC Arges owner Penescu.
Mircea Sandu declared that they should have acted more wisely and that these scandals should wake up everybody: referees, owners and observers. Sandu went on defending Gigi Becali, arguing that what he did was to feed people and offer them jobs and his is by no means a social menace.
In this vein, Cotidianul reads that anti-graft prosecutors found a CD named "bribe" in which FC Arges owner Cornel Penescu taped himself as he offered bribe to the head of referees, Gheorghe Constantin currently detained just as him. Anti-graft prosecutors searched Penescu's office when they found the incriminating CD.
Elsewhere in the news, Cotidianul reads about a new cement foundation able to hold a ten story building in Herastrau, Bucharest's biggest parks. Mayor Sorin Oprescu is outraged but his measures anemic.
The newspaper reads that all information lead to a company called Domino 94 Impex controlled by Barto
