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Gandul reads about the release of media mogul and businessman Sorin Ovidiu Vantu. The Court decided to release Vantu's drive, Alex Stoian and Octavian Turcan, a Moldovan businessman and a close friend of Vantu. The three were accused of favoring the fugitive Nicolae Popa, sentenced to 15 years of prison in the FNI file, leaving thousands of hundred without their life savings.
However, judges released them on certain terms: the three are not allowed to leave the country and must be available to meet prosecutors or police officers whenever they are called to do so; they need to inform authorities if they change their location; they are not allowed to carry a gun and they are not allowed to contact each other nor fugitive Nicolae Popa or his brother Virgil Popa.
On the other hand, Evenimentul Zilei reads how, presumably, Sorin Ovidiu Vantu sees Romania's modernization. The newspaper identified the set of principles that the media mogul militated for through his deeds in the recent years.
The principles put forward:
1. a President that can be controlled: for Vantu, a president needs to be modern, which means to be controllable.
The newspaper reads that he tried to do this with President Basescu but it did not work out.
2. Control the Romanian Intelligence Service - Vantu planned the modernization of the institution - when Radu Timofte was installed as director in 2001, it was because Vantu also had a say.
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