"Shopping Center Holding" is officially controlled by a company based in Cyprus, called Karias Trading Limited, which is led by Dumitru Ciocoiu, one of the managers of the companies controlled by Puiu Popoviciu. The company that acquired the mall of Oradea is headquartered in Bucharest, at the same location as Băneasa Investment, which is developing the largest real estate project of Puiu Popoviciu, which is also the largest project in the country.
The Cypriot mailboxes are registered at the same address of Limassol, which is precisely where the "trustee offshore" company that manages them all operates. In other words, in the Cypriot tax haven, the offshore companies owned by Popoviciu are helmed by the same manager.
The scheme herewith shows the businesses that Dumitru Ciocoiu managed for Puiu Popoviciu. Even if it is hard to tell exactly who truly owns a company located in tax haven, based on the diagram herewith we can say that the new owner of the business in Oradea is Puiu Popoviciu, who also owns the well-known mall of Băneasa, which is located in the yard of the real estate project "Băneasa Investment", which also includes the business park - "Băneasa Business Technology Park", in which one of the members of the board is Dumitru Ciocoiu.
It is precisely the business of Băneasa that propelled Gabriel "Puiu" Popoviciu, last spring, to the forefront of a huge scandal, after being detained by the prosecutors of the National Anticorruption Department, together with Cornel Şerban, the head of the DGIPI (The General Department of Intelligence and Domestic Protection), and Petru Pitcovici, the Head of the Operations Division of the General Anticorruption Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, for trying to derail the investigation in the case concerning the acquisition of the plot of land of the University of Agricultural Science of Buchares
