On January 13, 2011, the prosecutors of the Timișoara department of the DIICOT (Department to Counter International Organized Crime and Terrorism) have begun prosecution against the head of the Regional Excise and Customs Operations Department of Timişoara, Aurel Mătiuţ, due to his alleged involvement in the cigarette contraband on the border with Serbia. If the information presented hereinafter proves true, it would make Mătiuţ one of the brains behind the contraband operations in the Western area of Romania.
Aurel Mătiuţ replaced Gabriel Moldovan (the godson of PD-L deputy Gheorghe Ciobanu) as head of the Regional Excise and Customs Operations Department of Timişoara,. Gabriel Moldovan was made head of the customs at the Arad airport).
Mătiuţ had the backing of Gheorghe Falcă, the mayor of Arad, who is the godson of Traian Băsescu as well as the godfather of one of the children of the minister of Internal Affairs, Traian Igaş, who PSD senator Valer Marian accused of being the boss of the contraband in the Western region of Romania.
It needs to be said that the information presented below is currently unconfirmed, due to the short time that has elapsed from the raid on the customs of Moraviţa, Cruceni, Severin, Deta and Năidaş; the people and/or companies mentioned are fully entitlede to their right of reply, which will "BURSA" will fully honor.
The stories that follow have all the elements of a mob system - the mob of the customs.
Aurel Mătiuţ ensured the "protection" of the cigarette contraband hidden in the vehicles of the companies his father owns: Euro Expediţii SRL Arad, MLR Spedition Company SRL and Relmar Company SRL (the last two headquartered in Chişineu-Criş), by directing the control teams of the customs away from the vehicles which crossed the border through the Curtici Free Area. The cut of Mătiuț was about 5
