The Tepro case should announce the beginning of a new era for the employers-employees relations. When we are trying to speak about death, each and every word is indecent. However, the prattle concerning Sahleanu's death seems to be endless. Even if everything seems to be pretty clear, as the murderers and their accomplices have been arrested, and the prosecutors have established the components of the bill of indictment, there are plenty of big talkers who keep on speculating on this subject. The "exploitation" of a tragic event within a lucrative context is not a novelty in Romania. Gregarious petty politics and aggressive stupidity feel at ease here. The problem is that Sahleanu's assassination questions the idea of privatization itself and the competition-specific economy promoted by the present government. Whoever speaks about Tepro automatically resorts to one of the following cliches: miscarried privatization or fraudulent privatization . As a matter of fact, for a certain period of time, everybody thought that the assassination had been ordered by FPS (State Property Fund) officials and even today there are some persons who still believe that this institution had something to do with the Sahleanu case. Anyway, FPS is said to be the moral author of the assassination. Personally, I should say that FPS officials have made many mistakes in general, but as far as the Sahleanu case is concerned, this institution couldn't be reproached witth too many things, except a few bureaucratic details. It is very possible that FPS officials have made a bad choice as far as the Tepro privatization is concerned; in the same time, this privatization process is very likely to be a fraudulent one, i.e. a certain person or group might have gotten some money for having favoured the Czech company. But up to now nobody could prove any major mistake or fraud which could question the juri