Eight famous Romanian fugitives, seem to be lost in translation between the Romanian police and Interpol. Romania is due to have its real highway, linking one city to the other, in 2011, Transports minister Radu Berceanu assures one newspaper. Elsewhere in the news, Romanian researchers avoid coming home back after earning their degrees abroad, for well grounded reasons, one newspaper reads.
Cotidianul reads that famous Romanian fugitives are lost somewhere between the Police and the Interpol. The newspaper reveals that several important names are not present on the Interpol database or for that matter, on any international databases.
The latest example is Mihai Necolaiciuc, wanted for a huge fraud within the national railway company, CFR SA. The newspaper reads that there is a series of inconsistencies between the Romanian police database and the data submitted to international or American institutions.
US Embassy to Romania Press Office contradicts the declarations coming from the Romanian Interpol office. The latter informed that Mihai Necolaiciuc entered US after he received a tourist visa for six months from the US Embassy in Vienna.
Contrary to that, the Americans declared that Necolaiciuc received a 10 year visa since 2000 and was not issues in Vienna. In order to extend his stay, he would need to change his status through an application approved by local authorities in the US.
The paper discovered that Necolaiciuc is not on Interpol's wanted list and it's at the will of the Romanian authorities to make the information public. Contacted by the newspaper, Police spokesperson, Liviu Malureanu declared that even if they do not appear on the public Interpol website, this does not mean that the fugitives are not on the wanted list. He explained that the Interpol database also has a private access database