We can't actually speak about a decrease in the contraband phenomenon, as the cigarettes with Ukrainian stamps can be found in all the markets of the county of Satu Mare, said PSD senator Valer Marian, the vice-president of the Commission for Investigating Abuse, Fighting Corruption and Petitions. In his opinion, the relative decrease in contraband and the temporary respite, of a few months, on the border with Ukraine, have also come as a result of the change of regime in Kyiv.
Valer Marian provided us with a few examples of smuggling which the employees of the state were involved in.
* Interview with PSD senator Valer Marian, the vice-president of the Commission for the investigation of abuse, fighting corruption and petitions
Reporter: I will start off by asking you about the current stage of the lawsuit which Sorin Blejnar filed against you last year?
Valer Marian: On Friday, February 24th, 2012, in the court of Cluj-Napoca, we had the first hearing in the solatium lawsuit which the president of the ANAF Sorin Blejnar filed against me one year ago, namely on March 1st, 2011, at the Court of Satu Mare. Through that lawsuit, he asked that I be forced to pay him 1 leu in solatium and to apologize to him in two newspapers and on two national televisions, because he claimed that I harmed his public reputation through certain political statements which I made, especially through the one which I titled "A call to the prosecutors of the National Anti-corruption Department: Please don't leave Sorin get away!", in which I mentioned his involvement in the smuggling of fuel and cigarettes. At the request of Ovidiu Blejnar, the High Court of Cassation and Justice changed the venue of the lawsuit from the Court of Satu Mare to that of Cluj-Napoca, which represents the object of the file no. 2233/298/2011. The head of the National Tax Administration
