One newspaper reads that Interior minister Traian Igas was well aware of the involvement of the Interior Ministry general secretary Laurentiu Mironescu in the fiscal evasion case since January. The fiscal evasion in the port of Constanta and customs across the seaside was orchestrated by a very well structured group. Another newspaper reads that there might be evidence that someone up the social ladder was coordinated the business. Elsewhere in the news, Italian PM Berlusconi is expected in Bucharest next week for talks with PM Boc.
Evenimentul zilei quotes sources saying that Interior minister Traian Igas has known about the involvement of his general secretary Laurentiu Mironescu in the fiscal evasion scandal in Constanta since January. However Igas denied and launched an internal investigation at the minister’s intelligence service.
He said that he was not informed and that an investigation will settle who is to blame. He said that he would have dismissed Igas if he would have been informed of his involvement in such a criminal network. Together with Mironescu, another 27 persons including former and current chiefs of local customs across Constanta county and customs officers were indicted.
Apparently the group was monitored since 2010 and investigators managed to find out that for each merchandise container, a bribe between 1000 to 7000 dollars was offered. According to anti graft prosecutors the group would introduce 1000 containers/month. In 2010 there were 353,711 containers registered.
A simple computation reveals that the annual minimum bribe was 350 million euro but it could well reach 2.5 billion.
Romania libera reads about the well structured organization that managed to evade the law for so long. Anti graft prosecutors discovered a well structured criminal network, on six pillar, in which each m
