* The current minister has let go of the last of the businesses that she was involved in, which tied her to the controversial affair of the parking spots of Bucharest
* Elena Udrea had ties with the Niro group, which is now at the center of a tax evasion scandal
* Attorney Ana Maria Topoliceanu, which has been appointed as head of the National Investment Company, was an associate of Elena Udrea in the company "Elan Group"
For a long time, the company had been affiliated with the controversial business which managed the parking lots of Bucharest.
The decision came into effect last week, when it was published in the Official Gazette.
Elena Udrea joined the Dalli business almost seven years ago, when it acquired over half of company from her father-in-law, Victor Cocoş, who had in turn become a shareholder just a little bit earlier, acquiring the shares from the managers of the company, Radu Jianu and Gabriel Lucov.
Over the last few years, the Dalli International Co company, controlled by the Cocoş-Udrea, was the object of a major controversy, because it was repeatedly mistaken for the other company called Dalli, which managed the parking lots of Bucharest.
Dalli International Co is the third company in which the current minister of Tourism was a shareholder over the last eight years, and all of them have been dissolved in the interim.
The most controversial business that Elena Udrea was involved in was the real estate business of Afumaţi, set up in 2006, in association with her husband Dorin Cocoş, and with Niro "95 Impex, controlled by businessman Dumitru Nicolae.
Daily "România liberă" yesterday published a comprehensive article about the investigations of the prosecutors of the DIICOT (the Department to Counter International Organized Crime and Terrorism) aimed at the Asian factions operating in the retail com
