British Citizen Investigated By SFO Has Heart-Attack in Bucharest

British citizen Barry George suffered a heart attack Saturday in Bucharest and is now under medical supervision in the city’s emergency hospital.

George made headlines both in Romania and UK after authorities in London started to investigate him for his alleged involvement in paying a hefty seven million pounds commission to British officials agreeing to sell frigates to Romania’s Navy.

The UK’s Serious Fraud Office sSFOt and Romania’s anticorruption prosecutors are still investigating the case of the sell of the two British frigates to Romania.

George and his wife Georgiana are well known to political and business circles in Romania. They are in fact shareholders in two Romanian companies. One of the two is AXIS TRADE & CONSULTING SRL, headquartered in Bucharest, which is under SFO investigation. The Georges also own two British companies which they set up in the ‘80s: ROM-AIR LIMITED and ROM-CAR LIMITED. Frigate "King Ferdinand" for which Romanian citizens allegedly paid more than a second-hand buy was worth