* The ASF claims that it did not receive any such complaint

* The victim says that he has notified the ASF and the Police four months ago

* The Police claims that they never had the time to investigate

A new case of theft of shares, similar to the one which the head of IFC Romania, Ana Maria Mihăescu fell victim to, was reported to us by a reader, which would show that on the Romanian stock market, such "events" are not isolated, even though the representatives of the Financial Supervision Authority (ASF) told us, last week, that they have not identified any situations similar to that of the head of the IFC mission in Romania.

Mr. Gheorghe Palade told us that, in the beginning of May, he was notified by mail by Intercapital Invest that his shares which were stored at the Central Depository on the first section, were sold, an operation which was conducted without his having issued a sell order. The amount resulting from the sale of the shares was deposited in a Bucharest agency of Millennium Bank, based on a fake ID, said Mr. Palade. The loss amounts to 52,000 lei, according to him.

He told us that in the beginning, on April 14th, he was contacted by phone by an employee of the Gorjului agency of ING Bank Bucharest to pick up a debit card which he had allegedly asked for. Due to the persistence of the ING employee, Gheorghe Palade went to the agency in question, on April 26th, and found that request for the card had been made in his name by an individual who had a card with the same identification data (date of birth, Personal Numeric Code and address) as his, the only difference being the photograph. "As a result, I have warned the employees of the branch of ING that they were dealing with a serious case of identity theft and I have asked for criminal investigations to be initiated, in order to find the identity of the author of the forg