Romanian fugitive Mihai Necolaiciuc arrives in Romania today, after five years since he fled the country to escape indictment by anti-graft prosecutors. Elsewhere in the news, Romania risks losing 360 million euro from the EU Social European Fund. A Romanian is on Playboy Italia’s cover. Romania is on third, globally, as the country with most new retail brands in 2010. A humanitarian expedition in Romania donates 18 tons of food to an isolated village in the Danube Delta.
Evenimentul Zilei informs its readers that Mihai Necolaiciuc, former director of the railway state company, who fled the country in 2005 to escape anti graft indictment will arrive in Romania today. The total prejudice, according to anti-graft prosecutors amounts to about 55 million euro.
Necolaiciuc was indicted in three files that were ruled in his absence. In all three files, he is accused of prejudices to the company. In the US, Necolaiciuc has been living in Miami where he bought three apartments worth 1.3 million euro. When arrested by US police forces, he hired the same lawyer that defended in the past Nicaraguan dictator Manuel Noriega.
In an interview for Romania libera, Peter Stub Jorgensen, DG Director for Social Affairs in the European Commission warns that Romania might lose 360 million euro from the EU Social Fund unless it finds ways to spend it until the end of 2012. The EU official announces EU’s strategy for the integration of the Roma that will be released this week.
About the situation of the Roma in Romania, Jorgensen says that the Commission is well aware of most of the problems organizations that seek funds are having. He says that the Commission will try, with the collaboration of the Romanian authorities to deal with the problems. In terms of Roma integration, the EU official says that the Romanian state was not well prepared f