In the transcripts from the Otopeni Airport commercial premises file, in which a former director and three businessmen are under house arrest, heavy names from politics appear – PSD leader Marcel Ciolacu, Transport Minister Sorin Grindeanu, MEPs Mihai Tudose and Rareș Bogdan and potential future transport ministers. All of them are mentioned or circulated by those involved as the decision-makers who could help extend some commercial deals worth tens of millions of euros, which would have opened the way for those involved to extend some commercial contracts by up to 10 years with the state airport. Only DNA got in the way, because the agreement had to be initialed after a public auction that would have been fraudulent. It should be noted that none of the politicians whose names appear in the transcripts are intercepted, at least not according to the indictment documents, obtained exclusively by Digi24.
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Andreea Georgescu, Digi24 journalist: Transcripts in which political leaders from the governing coalition are mentioned appear in the file in which a former director of Otopeni Airport and 3 businessmen, two of whom own one of the companies that operate the commercial spaces of the airport located in the north The capital.
The transcripts capture conversations those under house arrest in the case have had largely over the past year in the order in which they are listed in the nearly 400-page indictment.
The first to be mentioned is the Minister of Transport, Sorin Grindeanu. The former director of the Airport and one of the businessmen interested in obtaining an extension of a contract that brings him business of tens of millions of euros, according to the documents in the file, is trying to find a solution to convince the Minister of Transport to propose in the Council of Otopeni Airport Administration extending the agreement that was to expire later this year.
Those involved in this file are also discussing the option that would have changed their business if the Ministry of Transport had switched from PSD to PNL in the government rotation, which is scheduled this year. There are several names of politicians who could take over the leadership of the Ministry of Transport. An example is that of the MEP Rareș Bogdan. Also, those involved in this file claim that they could get to it.
Another interesting discussion between the conversations of those under investigation or between those under investigation and collaborators of the DNA, even Marcel Ciolacu, the PSD president.
The people from DNA say that one of the companies that operate these commercial spaces managed in 2019 to have a turnover of approximately 90 million euros, hence the huge sums circulated as bribes by those who claimed to be able to intervene or that they could find solutions to intervene with all these politicians up to 20 million euros.
It is an ongoing investigation. It should be noted that in the documents consulted by us – the indictment documents, almost 400 pages – there are no transcripts in which any of these politicians were intercepted, no other data appears to show that they were actually reached or that there was some intervention, but surely all these discussions are taken into account by those from DNA, certainly the investigators check whether all these discussions remained at the level of discussions or, on the contrary, it went further.
In this case, a former director of Otopeni Airport, two businessmen and a third person who claimed to be able to connect businessmen on the one hand and politicians on the other are being investigated.
Ciolacu: “I don’t know and no one has had such a discussion with me”
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The leader of the PSD, Marcel Ciolacu, reacted, on Tuesday at the Parliament, to this information and to the fact that he is mentioned in the interceptions in the file: “I don’t know and no one had such a discussion with me. I don’t know these characters and I’m glad that order is being made”.
Excerpts from intercepts:
„Cătălin Lăscuț: Yes, being from the group with Dîncu, with Grindeanu, with Codruța… with that… the old group… no… he listened, yes… finally Grindeanu tried to solve so-so, so-so, don’t even get upset with us…
Tănăsescu Radu-Laurentiu: He gave it in the middle…
Cătălin Lăscut: If all the premiers come…
Hardan Saadeh: Tudose?
Cătălin Lăscut: Eh… Super ok…
Hardan Saadeh: Da` vine Tudose?
Cătălin Lăscuț: Well yes… because Marcel is afraid to leave the Chamber… Marcel is afraid to leave the Chamber because he wants Grindeanu to take his place and he is putting himself in front as prime minister and he doesn’t know what year what are the problems…may be…
Ivan George Alexandru: I spoke with Rareș before.
Hardan Saadeh: Rares Bogdan?
Ivan George Alexandru: Yes “Stay calm! Guaranteed next week!”
Hardan Saadeh: If Cristi is so close and is such a friend and does everything for him and prays for you, it seems to me…that he doesn’t serve Cristi… Right or not?
Ivan George Alexandru: E!
Hardan Saadeh: My!
Ivan George Alexandru: Otherwise they discuss…there were very heated discussions between them on my topic!
Ivan George Alexandru: Brother…my opinion is that…they took Rareș for granted.
Hardan Saadeh: What does it mean?
Ivan George Alexandru: For the little ones, for the suckers. But now it’s the winning team again. Second winning team.
Ivan George Alexandru: That is, if what is being discussed does not happen, if he does his job…
Hardan Saadeh: Cristi?
Ivan George Alexandru: Yes
Hardan Saadeh: Normal!
Ivan George Alexandru: That’s right! So! It comes out with…
Hardan Saadeh: Scandal, normal! You can’t play at that level…
Ivan George Alexandru: …It’s much higher than you can imagine! And you know what I can do and you know where…
Hardan Saadeh: Me, normal level…
Ivan George Alexandru: Yes, if I go and discuss there…but…I started taking everything again, reading, doing, editing, to find the solution. That I have to give the solution! Otherwise…
Hardan Saadeh: Of course you have to give it to Cristi! Yes! Not! Cristi must give to… Grindeanu, right?
Ivan George Alexandru: Exactly! He doesn’t go and talk and say, “Well, it must be done like this, like this, like this…”
Hardan Saadeh: Yes, to Grindeanu or to Mihalache, you said that maybe who?
Ivan George Alexandru: He told me “Well, I can solve it one hundred percent!”
Cătălin Lăscuț: Well, it’s not, I was also told by who…
Hardan Saadeh: Who? Yes, they have to say who, otherwise I can’t take it from above…
Cătălin Lăscut: He told me…
Hardan Saadeh: Cinema?
(…)
Cătălin Lăscuț: Please, he told me… let him tell you…”
Editor :
A.C.
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