#Teleormanleaks: Possibly Incriminating Briefcase Found On Company Linked To Ruling Party Leader

According to RISE Project, the briefcase contains “essential information from within Tel Drum, which was not found by anticorruption prosecutors when they raided the company last year”. This includes a 63 GB hard-drive with thousands of company bills, bank statements, documents which establish false companies, and tens of thousands of emails from a high-ranked company official.

The briefcase also contained a tablet which belonged to Tel Drum General Director Petre Pitis, a telephone agenda with almost 1,000 numbers, including those of top-ranked politicians, and personal documents pertaining to Dragnea’s family.

The investigative site briefly presented some of the case's contents – including photos of Dragnea and other Tel Drum officials on holiday in Brazil – and announced that it will publish detailed reports on the leak in the coming weeks, under the moniker #Teleormanleaks.

RISE Project specified that the briefcase was initially found by a townsperson in Teleorman county on his property, who then sent it to one of the news outlets' sources in the county.

Tel Drum's current deputy director Florian Nedea told MEDIAFAX on Monday that, if the contents of the briefcase turn out to be legitimate, they were leaked by someone from within the company.

“I don’t know where this (the information, ed.) comes from, but if it is true, then it can only be someone from Tel Drum, who had access to our documents and photos (…) I will meet with my colleagues to see if they have any information and what we can do,” the Tel Drum told MEDIAFAX.

The company has been linked for a long time with Social Democrat Party leader Liviu Drangea, although he never officially held any office within it. It held near monopoly over public construction works in the county during Dragnea’s stint as Teleorman county council chairman, between 2000 and 2012.

Tel Drum is currently investigated by anticorruption prosecutors following a notification by the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF), under the suspicion of having been illegally assigned an EU-funded public road restoration contract in the county.

Dragnea himself was officially indicted in the case by National Anticorruption Directorate in November 2017, being accused of multiple offences such as forming an organized criminal group, fraudulently obtaining EU funds and abuse of office for favoring Tel Drum when granting the contract.

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