Romanian Tourism Min Refuses To Acknowledge Inquiry Committee

Udrea said she will sue “every participant in the conspiracy” for abuse of office, conspiracy to commit criminal acts and trying to determine false testimony.

Adrian Videanu, vice-president of the Democratic Liberal Party, said Monday, after a party leadership meeting, the party will officially ask for the parliament committee investigating tourism minister Elena Udrea to be disbanded.

Videanu said the democrat liberals demand the disbanding of the investigation committee based on the evidence presented by media, showing that the committee’s initial purpose was changed.

Videanu said the democrat liberals will ask the discipline commission in the Chambers of Deputies to analyze the way the Udrea committee conducted the investigations in Udrea case.

“We believe that the activity of the investigation committee inquiring on tourism minister Elena Udrea is an abuse without precedent that was fortunately debunked by the media (…),” said Videanu.

Videanu added the PDL decision not to participate in the investigations is justified by the way the inquiry commission conducts its investigations.

He said the democrat liberals will ask the state’s authorities, such as the Court of Accounts or the National Authority for Regulating and Monitoring Public Procurement to continue the investigations at the Tourism Ministry.

On Sunday evening, media made public a recording of the discussions in the investigation committee between Ludovic Orban, Aura Vasile, Adriana Saftoiu and, according to a transcript that came with the recording, Lakatos Peter, who denies being involved in the discussion. According to Gandul daily, the fourth person that participated in the discussion was the social democrat Dumitru Chirita.

The members of the inquiry commission resumed the talk on the accusations that appeared in press referring to the tourism minister, set up the inquiry plan and the people that would be inquired. They also discussed about the ways of finding evidence to support the accusations against the minister.

The tourism minister said neither she nor any official in the ministry will participate in the inquiry sessions of the parliamentary committee investigating Udrea case.

Udrea added she decided to ask all the state institutions to run investigations at the Tourism Ministry to see that all the activities made by the institution are “perfectly legal”.

The tourism minister said there is evidence the inquiry committee acted illegally, trying to create a criminal file based on accusations that are not true.

The Parliament investigation committee in Udrea’s case was created in July at the proposition of the liberals and social democrats.

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