* The administrator of Energon Power&Gas, a partner in several businesses with the son of Virgil Ardelean, the "fox" from Military Unit 0215
* The whistleblower - Remus Vulpescu
The Court of Bucharest yesterday decided to take into preventive custody for 29 days Ioan Mihăilă (member of the Supervisory Board of Hidroelectrica and advisor to Minister Delegate for Energy Constantin Niţă) and of Eugen Brădean (head of trading at Hidroelectrica).Ioan Mihăilă is being charged with offering bribes, and Eugen Brădean, with complicity in taking bribes and in offering bribes, according to the National Anticorruption Department (DNA). Both were dismissed from their respective positions they held at Hidroelectrica. Of course, the Minister Delegate for Energy has also relinquished the services of Mihăilă. The name of minister Constantin Niţă appears in the transcripts made public yesterday.
Judicial sources also said that Remus Vulpescu, the chief of cabinet of the Minister of Finance, Daniel Chiţoiu, was the whistleblower in this case, in which he was being offered a bribe for an energy supply contract of almost 263 million Euros between Hidroelectrica and Energon Power&Gas SRL.
It would seem that Ioan Mihăilă hasn't forgotten his old habits. He was the first president of the Committee of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB), between 1995-1997 and he stepped down from this position after his involvement in the Bankcoop scandal, having been pursued by the police for a while.
In the CV posted on the website of Hidroelectrica, Mihăilă writes that between 1995-1998 "he was one of the pioneers of the local stock market by creating the BSE, the National Association of Securities Firms, the Rasdaq and the Romanian Securities Institute.
The resume of Ioan Mihăilă does not mention the position of Chairman of the Board which he held at Bankcoop.
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