Romanian Police Car Purchases Are Clean – Police Official

The head of the Romanian Police (IGPR), Gheorghe Popa, said that, at his request, DGA, DGIPI, DIF, and SRI informed that there are no suspicions regarding the contracts for the purchase of police cars.

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The departments replying to Popa’s request are the General Anticorruption Directorate (DGA), the General Intelligence and Interior Protection Department (DGIPI), the Fraud Investigation Department (DIF) within the Romanian Police and the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI).

Leasing company Ager Leasing won, in 2006, the auction organized by the Romanian Police for the Purchase of 6,000 cars through a financial leasing contract worth EUR70 million, concluded over a period of three years. This was not the first time the company concluded contracts with the Police, but also with the Gendarmerie.

Wednesday, Gheorghe Popa – appointed chief of Romanian Police on August 22, 2007 – said the current leadership of the Romanian Police took over the contract and “did nothing but pursue it, in accordance with the law."

"At one point, the interior minister told me he has doubts regarding the manner in which the contract is unfolding and then he demanded that the matter be looked into," Popa said.

He added that, at his request, all services mentioned checked the legality of this contract and reported there are no suspicions regarding the contract.

Romanian president Traian Basescu Thursday said he will notify the state’s institutions for a very serious analysis regarding cars and equipment contracted by the Ministry of Interior and regarding the first stage of obtaining the objectives assumed so that Romania may enter the Schengen space.

Basescu said the Ministry signed contracts for 392 Dacia Logan cars at the price of EUR11,700 per car, and for each one EUR40,000 worth of equipment was contracted, more than three times the value of the car, while the equipment contracted for BMW cars cost EUR60,000 for each car.

Regarding the program for the implementation of measures towards accession to the Schengen space, Basescu said the sums allocated for this program were spent without any evolution regarding the setting up of equipment at the national borders, while some of the money was spent on studies and not equipment.

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