The talks held by Mircea Geoana, the leader of Romania's Social Democratic Party (PSD) and a candidate in presidential elections later this month, with a Kremlin aide during the secret visit he paid to Moscow on April 27, 2009 lasted more than two hours focused on the privatization of Romgaz and energy-related issues, political sources have told HotNews.ro The PSD leader informed HotNews.ro, through his presidential campaign staff, that he refused to discussed details of the visit as it was "a private visit" which "did not discussed the Romgaz privatization". According to his message, [Democratic-Liberal minister of Economy] "Adriean Videanu was warranted by [Romania President and presidential candidate] Traian Basescu to discuss the issue". Two days ago, HotNews.ro published information exclusively about Geoana's visit to Moscow.
A day after Mircea Geoana's visit to Moscow, the PSD leader attended a meeting of Romania's Supreme Defense Council. A point on the meeting agenda related to Romania's energy strategy for the period of 2007-2020 and measures to organize state-controlled economic operators in the energy sector.
The visit was allegedly mediated by Boris Golovin, a businessman with interest in the Romanian energy sector about whom the media has reported to have been a former officer of the Russian army intelligence GRU. Golovin had allegedly told Geoana he would be able to arrange a meeting with Vladimir Putin, but the PSD leader only met during his trip to Moscow one of the Russian PM's aides.
Contacted by HotNews.ro, Golovin denied any link with the PSD and with the Moscow visit. The visit was confirmed later on Tuesday that Geoana paid such a visit to Moscow on April 27, but would not provide details about it.
Incumbent President Traian Basescu, who runs for a new term in office in presidential elections later thi
