The National Authority for the Restitution of Properties (ANRP), the institution which manages the compensation process and issues conversion deeds at the Proprietatea Fund, is being targeted by the prosecutors of the National Anti-Corruption Department (DNA), which has had it in its sights for quite some time, says lawyer Gheorghe Piperea, in an interview for BURSA.

The lawyer"s statement comes as, in mid-April, the prosecutors of the National Anticorruption Department (DNA) have announced that they were investigating an individual in the case of influence peddling with the clerks of the National Authority for the Restitution of Properties (ANRP), after, in March, they caught in flagrante a citizen of Constanţa as he was receiving money from a lady to whom he promised he would help her receive her compensation in the Proprietatea Fund sooner. No further information about a potential action of the National Anticorruption Department that would target the ANRP is available so far.

Lawyer Piperea said: "I expect what"s happening at the ANRP will soon come out into the open Influence peddling means that someone is buying and someone is paying. There were some cases of people who, unhappy that it was taking too long for them to receive shares in the Proprietatea Fund after buying the compensation rights which were still under litigation, started going on TV claiming that they were asked for a 30% cut of the amount that they were supposed to receive as < compensation >.

I think that the trades concluded with cases or shares in the Proprietatea Fund, which took place before the listing of the Fund on the Bucharest Stock Exchange, couldn"t have happened without verified information, originating from the institutions which are involved in the compensation process. This is how it can be explained why certain dossiers, which had been waiting for a solution fo