18 years have passed since the December 1989 Revolution in Romania and questions still remain about the fate of the huge fortune the Ceausescu family who had ruled the country with an iron fist for decades had made. A parliamentary commission has been attempting to determine where the money is and whether it is really out there. But investigations are deadlocked because of the refusal of some to collaborate with authorities.
The sum vehiculated amounts to two billion dollars, according to some, but nobody seems to actually find or determine what happened with it. Right after the post-Communist revolution, a Canadian company was hired to track the money but soon abandoned investigations as local institutions refused to cooperate.
Officials argue that the parliamentary commission needs to cooperate and open dialogue with both local institutions and people but also with international ones. The work is tedious as nobody knows exactly what they are looking for.
The two main intelligence services in Romania, the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI) and the Foreign Intelligence Service (SIE) have informed the commission that they have no documents related to the currency traffic in Romania before 1989, commission head Sabin Cutas told HotNews.ro. The data is seen as necessary to establish what kind of foreign bank accounts might have been used to store the money of the Ceausescus.
Cutas is a Senator representing the small Conservative Party (PC), led by businessman-politician Dan Voiculescu. Voiculescu, who had a history as a high profile economist under the Ceausescu regime, has long been accused of having a part in making the Ceausescu accounts disappear. He himself called for the parliamentary investigation into the matter to counter the claims.
MPs started work in investigating the issue a year ago and are expected
