Romania’s Interior minister is currently under scrutiny for variations between two wealth statements he gave in a period of two months. Elsewhere in the news, Romanian companies plan to reduce their personnel by a third in 2009, according to a survey. Romania’s imports recorded a drop of over 35% in the first quarter of 2009, one newspaper reads. Last but not least, high international demand in ammunition and hunting armament makes two profile factories prosper in times of recession.
Gandul reads that Romanian Interior minister Dan Nica has attracted Romania’s National Integrity Agency’s attention after a Romanian weekly, Academia Catavencu, published an investigation regarding dissimilarities between the two declarations of wealth he has given in December 2008 and in February 2009.
The Romanian Interior minister received a villa in Galati at the completion of the last mandate, from a certain Valentin Mititelu, the newspaper reads, quoting another paper, Gardianul. The property had been initially owned by the minister’s parents-in-law and godson before Valentin Mititelu got hold of it in 2005, the newspapers states.
Gandul goes on to say that ANI investigators found further defalcations in Dan Nica’s wealth statement: the vice prime-minister declared in December 2008 an income of 50,097 lei, earned as deputy in 2007, the same amount that he declared this February for 2008, although his position had changed. The Interior minister is currently under ANI’s investigation.
One third of Romanian companies will reduce their personnel in 2009, according to a study performed by the research company Hewitt Associates, Evenimentul Zilei reads. The study shows that 41% of Romanian companies reduced the salaries' budget for this year.
41% of the interviewed companies admitted to a lower staff expenditure budget in contras
