Romanian newspapers on Tuesday look into what might happen should the international financial crisis engulf the Romanian banking sector. They also discuss the lack of sanctions at Justice Ministry level following a wave of bonuses and pay boosts former Justice minister Tudor Chiuariu made to his cronies. And one paper reports that rich Gypsy people are accused of buying heirs from poor Romanian women in Southern Romania.
Evenimentul Zilei quotes a top central bank official who says that while nobody expects Romanian banks to face collapse following the international financial crisis, if such a hypothesis would become fact the National Bank of Romania would have the money to save the banks from bankruptcy.
The paper quotes Adrian Vasilescu, counselor for the National Bank governor, who says the central bank has put several scenarios on paper regarding the effects of the crisis on Romania. He said there was little chance that Romanians would not e able to pay their rates and that Romanian banks are strong with good liquidity indexes.
Meanwhile, Cotidianul looks into what Justice minister Catalin Predoiu has done in solving the case of huge pay boosts and bonuses made by his predecessor, Tudor Chiuariu, for people he had employed at the ministry. According to the paper, Predoiu failed to take any action as he says everything Chiuariu did was legal.
Predoiu had promised to look into the case. Cotidianul reported two months ago that during his only nine months in office, Chiuariu signed more than a thousand pay stimuli amounting to over two million RON to people he brought at the ministry. The money is almost three times bigger than that provided by Chiuariu's predecessor, Monica Macovei, in 15 months.
Elsewhere in the papers, Romania libera reports that rich Rroma - or Gypsy - people in the Gypsy-dominated village of
