Exchange: Mitrea Gets in with NAD

The tacit conflict between the SDP leaders erupted in justice. Judicial sources say the visits of Adrian Nastase to the NAD for the Zambaccian case are in exchange for the "clearance" of the SDP Secretary General, Miron Mitrea.

After a long period of silence, as far as the party situation is concerned, on Monday, Adrian Nastase made a surprise statement in which he attacks the SDP (the Social Democratic Party) Secretary General, Miron Mitrea. "He has probably started to talk politics with the NAD (the National Anti-corruption Directorate) prosecutor more than he does it with his party colleagues, but this is a different issue", Nastase stated. He was angry because of several statements made by Mitrea at NAD regarding the 2004 electoral campaign. The former SDP leader stated this after the anti-corruption prosecutors have showed him the investigation file for the Zambaccian case. Nastase didn’t want to say more about the Mitrea-NAD collaboration, but judicial sources say the SDP Secretary General has an important contribution to the accusation of the former PM. Moreover, the same sources say that the disjunction of the cause as far as the Mitrea case is concerned for the Zambaccian case could be the first sign of the end of the investigation in his case. Actually, from the beginning of the investigation, Mitrea hasn’t been called to the NAD headquarters for the hearings. This is what made the SDP leader say those things at the NAD on Monday. "I don’t know what he wanted to say. He is probably upset with this investigation", Mitrea said. He also denied any involvement in the Nastase file: "What do I have to do with his file?"

CONFIDENT. Premonition or not, Mitrea said he would be sent to Court at the beginning of this year. "I am sure this file will have a normal conclusion. I am sure there are no reasons for it to be sent to Court, but this is what the prosecutors have to decide", the former Minister of Transport said at that time. Mitrea’s lawyer is Adrian Vilau, who also defends the former Romanian General Consul in Hong Kong, Ioan Paun, who was also accused in the Zambaccian file. Sources say he changed his depositions during the hearings. This isn’t the only strange thing about NAD and Miron Mitrea.

STAND-BY FILES. The quoted sources say the important files that regard the former Minister of Transport, like MTV Constanta, the estate exchange in Baneasa, are in "stand-by until further orders". In the case of his mother’s house renovation made by a company owned by Sergiu Sechelariu, there haven’t been made any investigations at the premises. Mitrea has been accused for this matter this spring. Mitrea is also supposed to have connections to several security and cleaning companies supposed to have obtained important contracts in the airports and ministries while he was Minister. They also say he had offered contracts for the service of the railroads to several friends of his, Sergiu Sechelariu being one of them.