A line of cars two kilometers long was stuck yesterday in the Customs of Siret, until 9:30 in the morning, when the entire staff of the customs office was abruptly replaced, bosses included, and thus ended the bedlam of the detention of the customs workers and of the policemen for hearings, in the probes on graft and cigarette contraband, in which hundreds of their colleagues from the Police and the General Anticorruption Department arrived from three counties with dozens of cars, which they initially parked in front of the Police Inspectorate of the County of Suceava, which is were the offenders were first taken to.
Other vehicles of the special units had parked in the yard of the Democratic Union of Ukrainians in Romania (well, they do say that some of the cigarette traffickers are indeed Ukrainians, but what possible danger could the Ukrainian party pose, other than perhaps the fact that some if its members are smokers?)
If we multiply 80 (the number of customs workers that were arrested yesterday at the Siret customs office,) times 59 (the number of regional and county departments of the Customs authority), we get 4720.
I had no idea that arithmetic had anything to do with politics: the product of our multiplication exceeds by almost 1000 the number of employees in the National Customs Authority (they are only 3784), which would imply that if one were to simultaneously probe all the customs offices in Romania, not only there would be no one left in them to do their jobs, but we"d probably have to arrest the Government and the presidency itself.
Chief police questor Marian Tutilescu, the head of the Schengen Department of the Ministry of Administration and Internal Affairs yesterday said that actions like the one which happened at the Siret Border Crossing will continue.
Just think about it...
The policemen of the Siret customs
