* The investigative body of minister Mihail Dumitru will begin the investigations of the National Land Improvement Agency (ANIF) and its branches, after the Administration awarded without auction, contracts worth 1.5 million Euros for repairing the damages caused by the floods
* The investigation was demanded by the minister following the article in the BURSA newspaper concerning the controversial contracts signed by the ANIF
The Minister of Agriculture, Mihail Dumitru, has decided to begin an investigation at the National Land Improvement Agency (ANIF) and its branches, after BURSA published an exclusive article describing how, after the floods that happened this spring, the branches of the ANIF awarded repair contracts worth 1.5 million Euros without call for tenders, even as the companies in question lacked the equipment needed to perform the works specified in the contracts.
The officials of the Ministry of Agriculture stated the following for BURSA: "The minister has decided to launch an investigation both at the headquarters of the ANIF, as well as at its branches. For this purpose was appointed the Investigation Commission (part of the Investigative Body of the minister). The investigation will concern itself mostly with the procurement - in particular the ones presented in the article published in your newspaper. Once the probe will be completed, the investigative commission will present the findings and conclusions to the minister".
In the article "Even as the parliamentary investigation is under way, irregularities continue", published in BURSA, in April, the National Land Improvement Company (SNIF) complained that several private companies had negotiated and secured very lucrative contracts with the agencies of the ANIF (which have no legal personhood, so they can not take out loans), and then used the Administration itself as a s
