Control total prin nepotism si afacerism Noiembrie 6th, 2009
In 2005, dupa ce Vasile Blaga a devenit ministru de Interne, sotia sa a fost angajata sefa a Directiei Juridice si de Control din Ministerul Educatiei, desi nu avea pregatire juridica. In cursul acestui an, dupa ce a revenit la putere, ca ministru al Dezvoltarii Regionale, din 22 decembrie 2008 si ca ministru al Administratiei si Internelor, din 1 octombrie 2009, Vasile Blaga si-a implantat o serie de apropiati (rudenii, afini, prieteni, fosti subalterni) in fruntea unor institutii cheie ale statului roman. In prima parte a anului si-a instalat doi fosti subalterni din Oradea in fruntea Directiei Generale a Vamilor, respectiv pe Radu Marginean ca director si pe Dan Pulbere ca director adjunct. Pe fostul sau adjunct Calin Vesa l-a pus director al Directiei Vamale Regionale Cluj, care cuprinde toate judetele din nord-vestul Romaniei (Bihor, Satu Mare, Maramures, Salaj, Bistrita si Cluj). Pe consateana si fina sa Ionela Bruchental, care si-a pierdut deputatia, a facut-o director adjunct la Garda Nationala de Mediu.
In ultimele doua saptamani, dupa ce a redevenit ministru de Interne, Vasile Blaga l-a numit sef al Inspectoratului National al Politiei de Frontiera pe chestorul Ioan Buda, fost sef al Directiei Politiei de Frontiera Oradea si bun amic de-al sau din vremea in care era director al Directiei Regionale Vamale Oradea. In fruntea Directiei Generale Anticoruptie l-a numit pe comisarul sef Liviu Popa, care-i este nepot si pe care tot el l-a promovat sef al Inspectoratului Judetean de Politie Bihor in 2005. Fina si consateana sa Ionela Pop Bruchental a devenit saptamana trecuta vicepresedintele Autoritatii de Valorificare a Activelor Statului (AVAS).
Cireasa de pe tort este, insa, numirea recenta in postul de director general al Transgaz Medias a celui declarat ca fiind cel mai bun prieten al sau, Florin Muntean, fost coleg de armata si de facultate si mai recent nas de cununie al fiicei sale. Presedinte al organizatiei municipale Medias a PD-L, Florin Muntean a fost director general la Baza Auto Transport Medias pana in 2004, cand a fost ales deputat la alegerile parlamentare. In anul urmator s-a retras din Parlament pentru functia de director general la Transgaz, pe care a detinut-o pana in 2007, cand a fost inlocuit dupa ce PD a iesit de la guvernare. In perioada in care a fost director general al Transgaz, Florin Muntean a ramas actionar la Baza Auto Transport Medias, la care director general a fost numit un alt prieten al lui Vasile Blaga, Valer Crisan. In perioada respectiva, intre Transgaz si Baza Auto Transport Medias au fost incheiate contracte profitabile de sute de mii de euro. Tot in perioada respectiva, mai exact in 2007, Vasile Blaga a primit, conform declaratiei sale de avere, un imprumut de 500.000 RON (138.000 euro), pe termen de 10 ani, de la bunul sau prieten Valer Crisan. Florin Muntean si Valer Crisan au fost sponsori importanti ai campaniei prezidentiale a lui Traian Basescu din 2004, cand seful campaniei acestuia a fost amicul lor Vasile Blaga.
Florin Muntean si Valer Crisan sunt prieteni buni si cu Ioan Lascu, prim-procurorul Parchetului Medias de circa 30 de ani. Ioan Lascu este tatal Procurorului General al Romaniei, Laura Codruta Kovesi, numita in aceasta functie de Presedintele Traian Basescu in 2005. Aceasta este filiera pe care o procuroare necunoscuta din Sibiu a devenit peste noapte sefa tuturor procurorilor din Romania si sluga credincioasa a Presedintelui Traian Basescu si a ministrului de Interne Vasile Blaga. Sa fie justitie pentru Vasile Blaga si prietenii sai!
Cu asemenea prieteni fini de afaceri, Vasile Blaga a facut nu numai cariera politica, ci si o avere pe masura. Vasile Blaga este unul din cei mai instariti politicieni din Romania, detinand case si terenuri in Oradea si in Bucuresti, masini de lux, sute de mii de euro in conturi si actiuni de peste un milion de euro.
Conform declaratiilor de avere din ultimii ani, ministrul Vasile Blaga detine o vila de 346 mp in Oradea, un apartament de 200 mp in Bucuresti (Aleea Alexandru), cumparat de la senatorul UDMR Verestoy Attila la pretul de 860.000 de euro, un teren de 378 mp in Oradea si un teren de 3 hectare in comuna Cihei-Sanmartin din judetul Bihor. In 1991, cand era prefect al judetului Bihor, Blaga a primit in concesiune un teren intravilan pe care si-a construit vila din Oradea (strada Closca nr. 33), in conditiile in care terenul era revendicat de un localnic (Ioan Aurel Radu), caruia ii fusese confiscat abuziv in 1951. Cu toate acestea, Vasile Blaga a reusit sa devina proprietarul terenului cu sprijinul justitiei bihorene. In 2002, printr-o hotarare a Consiliului Local Oradea, lui Vasile Blaga i-a fost atribuit un teren intravilan de 500 mp, in baza Legii nr.42 /1990 privind drepturile luptatorilor din Revolutia din Decembrie 1989, fiind incadrat „luptator remarcat prin fapte deosebite” si detinand certificatul de revolutionar nr.664, desi la Stei a fost liniste totala in decembrie 1989. Acordarea acestui teren in baza Legii nr.42/1990 este cel putin dubioasa in conditiile in care Vasile Blaga avea o locuinta in proprietate in Oradea, iar motivul acordarii acestui teren nu putea fi altul decat pentru constructia unei locuinte. De altfel, in Legea nr. 341/2004, care a inlocuit Legea nr.42/1990, se prevede in mod expres ca atribuirea unui teren intravilan se face doar daca beneficiarul nu dispune de o locuinta proprietate personala. In ce priveste domeniul auto, Vasile Blaga a detinut in ultimii ani un autoturism BMW, un jeep Freelander si o motocicleta Honda.
In ce priveste participatiile la diverse societati comerciale, Vasile Blaga si sotia sa detin actiuni, polite de asigurare si conturi la SC Petrolsub SA (374.000 actiuni), Banca Transilvania (280.870 actiuni), SC Broker SA (8.406 actiuni), SIF Banat-Crisana (8.000 actiuni), SC Romania Combi SA (692 actiuni), Banca Romexterra (248 actiuni), SC Mobila Alfa SA, SC Hiperion SA, SC UAMT SA, BRD, Bancpost, Raiffeissen Bank, Banca Ion Tiriac, BCR, ING, Nederlanden. In data de 27 septembrie 2005, Vasile Blaga si-a cesionat pachetul de 44% actiuni detinut la SC Mobimod SA Oradea, in valoare de 308.000 euro, firmei SC Master SA Oradea, la care era administrator controversatul afacerist Gheorghe Mudura, care a fost cercetat si arestat ulterior de DNA pentru spalare de bani si evaziune fiscala.
In ultimii ani, Vasile Blaga a detinut in conturi sute de mii de euro si sute de mii de lei (RON). In declaratiile de avere ale lui Vasile Blaga figureaza doua imprumuturi dubioase, unul de 600.000 RON de la Doina Stoina si unul de 500.000 RON de la Valer Crisan, pe care sustine ca le-a contractat, fara dobanda, pe termen de 10 ani, in data de 12 iunie 2007. Blaga n-a vrut sa furnizeze presei niciun fel de date despre cei doi creditori, rezumandu-se sa spuna doar ca sunt „doi prieteni”. El a motivat ca din cele doua imprumuturi, totalizand 330.000 euro la cursul de la data respectiva, a achitat restanta la locuinta cumparata de la senatorul UDMR Verestoy Attila cu 860.000 de euro. Luarea acestor imprumuturi este cel putin ciudata, in conditiile in care, conform unei estimari a valorii veniturilor declarate de Vasile Blaga, aceasta s-ar fi cifrat, la data de 14 iunie 2007, la peste un milion de euro. La fel de ciudata este inscrierea de catre Vasile Blaga in declaratia sa de avere a vanzarii unui apartament fiicei sale Agathe Cristina contra sumei de un miliard de lei, desi in Ardeal si la romani obiceiul este ca parintii sa le cumpere nu sa le vanda locuinte copiilor.
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Robert Horvath Says:
SUCURSALA AL QUEDA IN ROMANIA.
Cotidianul italian “Il Secolo XIX” a publicat in editia electronica ca, in cursul unei anchete a comandamentului operativ special al politiei din Genova, a fost interceptata o discutie telefonica dintre doi suspecti de terorism de origine tunisiana.
Din convorbire se creiona existenta unei ramificatii a organizatiei al-Qaeda pe teritoriul Romaniei, de unde teroristii ar putea ajunge usor in Europa de Vest si care ar detine inclusiv tabere de antrenament unde luptatorii islamisti ar invata sa foloseasca dispozitivele explozive. Ziarul italian nominaliza trei persoane implicate in Romania: liderul celulei din Europa de Est a retelei, Kamel Abbachi, algerianul Mourad Boussaha si Abdul Baset Suwalem. Potrivit publicatiei italiene, toti sint casatoriti cu romance si ar locui in orasul Galati ( Romania )
Potrivit ziarului “Il Secolo XIX”, Abbachi avea drept sarcina sa gestioneze transferul de imigranti clandestini catre Italia si Portugalia, in schimbul a circa 1.500 de euro de persoana. El le facea acestora invitatii de sedere in Romania, prin intermediul unui “mijlocitor”.
Potrivit ziarului italian, suspectii retinuti de comandamentul operativ special al politiei italiene (ROS) au avut contacte cu membrii de prim-plan din terorismul islamic, implicati in atentatele de la Casablanca, Madrid si Londra. Interceptind unul dintre telefoanele mobile folosite de membrii italieni ai celulei, politistii au reusit, in cursul anchetei, sa identifice un numar de telefon prin satelit care era utilizat de Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi, unul dintre locotenentii lui Osama bin Laden, care a fost ucis intr-un raid american in Irak.
Reported by Robert Horvath for Nippon Press ( Europe )
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IN ATENTIA COMISIEI PARLAMENTARE DE MUSAMALIZARE A SCANDALULUI ” ARME BASESCU PENTRU TERORISTI ”
OBAMA DENUNTA INVAZIA DE ARME ROMANESTI !
Newsweek offers this on the administrations actual position:
Running for president in last year’s Democratic primaries, Barack Obama promised to restore a federal ban on certain semiautomatic assault guns—a position that’s still on the White House Web site .”……..permitting a flood of cheap Romanian, Bulgarian and other Eastern European AK-47s to enter the country’ “There’s been an absolute deluge of these weapons,” says President Obama
FBI : ASASINAREA PRESEDINTELUI OBAMA TREBUIA INFAPTUITA CU O ARMA – ROMARM CUGIR
1. Bomb-maker talked of Obama, Clinton assassination, feds say …Jun 10, 2008 … reaches the White House, according to an affidavit unsealed today. … Kahle had two AK-47 assault rifles, a sniper rifle and … He said the explosives could be used to kill police officers if they attempted to raid his house. … dealer or collector, unlawfully transferred a ROMANIAN AK-47 …
2. http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/…/s_572019.html – Cached – Similar –
Obama, assassination with romanian arm, feds say:
Kahle unwittingly discussed his ominous desires with undercover FBI agents in April, according to federal authorities.
“Kahle said words to the effect of, that ‘if Hillary Clinton, or Barack Obama, get elected, hopefully they will get assassinated, if not they will disarm the country and we will have a civil war,’” FBI Special Agent William B. Weiss wrote in an eight-page affidavit.
Kahle had two AK-47 assault rifles, a sniper rifle and approximately 500 rounds of ammunition in his possession when he made that comment, Weiss wrote.
He was among five people arrested over the weekend by the Pittsburgh Joint Terrorism Task Force.
Marvin Hall, 49, of Rimersburg, Clarion County; Morgan A. Jones, 64, of Lucinda, Clarion County; and Perry D. Landis, 61, of DuBois, Clearfield County; were arrested Sunday on weapons charges, including the illegal transfer of exploding golf balls and assault rifles.
Jones, who prosecutors said is not a licensed importer, dealer or collector, unlawfully transferred a ROMANIAN AK-47 assault rifle to a person outside Pennsylvania in February.
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by Robert Horvath
Robert Horvath Says:
BASESCU- ISRAELIAN ARMAMENT MAFIA CONECTION
Robert Horvath a US investigative journalist has been continuing a series of articles in Nipon PRESS describing about the DEA sting operation against Viktor Bout, Russian arms dealer, who for 15 years has run guns to African warlords and Islamic militants, and also on some events from the past, involving him. Horvath says his correspondence provide additional disclosures about the illegal weapons trade and Bouts connections to the Romanian Presiden Basescu
HORVATH writes that in 1998, the Romanian authorities made up a fake cigarettes-smuggling case . In fact, there were no cigarettes on board Viktor Bout`s airplane IL-76 operating for Air Sofia which were unloaded at the Bucharest-Otopeni Airport. Overnight standing at its military apron was necessary for the Romanian secret services to load Romanian-made anti- aircraft missiles for destination to under UN embargo.
The american reporter wrote then that weapons under the cover of cigarettes were exported apparently by a company owned by Viktor Bout and Shimon Naor because they had the monopoly on such secret transactions at that time. Connections of Bout and other gun-runners to the Romanian military intelligence seem more then aparent.
In fact, the management of the network of the under-cover firms belonged to Colonel George Dumitrescu, an active duty, high-ranking officer of Anti-terrorist brigade of the SRI (the Romanian Homeland Intelligence Service), which coordinated the activities of the Arab citizens and their Muslim brothers in Romania. His cousin, the ex-personnel head of staff of the Intelligence Academy in the 1990s, was appointed colonel prosecutor of the Military Panel of the Supreme Court. In all operations with cigarettes this network was supported by a general and the head of the Economic Counter Intelligence Division of the SRI.
Personnel of the SIE (Foreign Intelligence Agency of Romania) based in the Romanian embassies was responsible for preparing the fake documents necessary for commercial operations of the arms smugglers network. Bouts planes operated not only from Romania but also from the neighboring Republic of Moldova, according Robert Horvath.
The comments mentions a business link for Bout with the Romanian government ( TRANSPORT MINISTER – TRAIAN BASESCU ) by the name of Colonel Gigel Bratiloveanu. This Colonel currently works as an economic adviser for the Romanian Embassy in Moscow.
In the DEA’s charges against Bout, which accuse him of supplying weapons to the Colombian FARC group, phone conversations between Bout, Andrew Smulian, and his undercover agents posing as clients suggest that Bout did not want to travel to Romania due to his “high profile” which made it more likely that he be “caught” in Romania.
The DEA must have had a plan to catch him in Bucharest, since all three operatives emphasized the convenience of meeting in Romania. Them in January 2008, DEA undercover operatives met with Smulian in Bucharest “again”– it seems Smulian, at least, had a Bucharest connection.
Then, in February 2008, the american agents intercepted a phone call between Bout and an unidentified party (CC-2) who operates an airline company in Romania. Bout asked CC-2 to help him acquire a Romanian visa; CC-2 discouraged Bout from attempting to come to Romania, saying it would be difficult to get a visa for him. Could it be Colonel Bratiloveanu friend of Baescu ?
Or is there another key player/Romanian partner who assisted Bout? His Israeli partner-born in Romania, the admiral Shimon Naor a friend of Romanian president connected Viktor Bout to Arsenal and Romtehnica, companies of Romanian DoDefense. Cigarettes in cargo manifest of Air Sofia aircraft, in fact rifle guns amunitions loaded on board at Bucharest-Otopeni Romanian AFB for a destination under embargo in 1998 ( Sierra Leone ).
Who is Shimon Naor? Or rather, who is Lieutenant Colonel Shimon-Hershkovitz? Ha’aretz brings him up in the context of the Israeili Defense Ministry’s bribery scandals:
A case that did worse damage to Israel’s image and harmed relations with the United Nations was that of Lieutenant Colonel (Res.) Shimon Naor-Hershkovitz, a former manpower officer in the navy who, after his discharge from the Israel Defense Forces, became an arms dealer for several Israeli companies. He was arrested in Rumania in August 1999 on suspicion of selling Rumanian arms, using forged documents (end-user certificates, indicating that the arms were intended for Togo) to the guerrilla forces of Dr. Jonas Savimbi, thus violating the sanctions of the United Nations Security Council against arms sales to Angola.
In November 2001, a UN investigative committee that was examining the case requested information from Israel regarding Israeli-registered companies owned by Naor-Hershkovitz and his partners.
Naor didn’t stop there. He was arrested again in 2004 in Jordan on suspicion of smuggling arms to Sudanese rebels. It seems Naor had friends in high places– his protectors in Israel are evident, but public prosecutor Cristian Bojinca also tried to protect Naor in Romania. So much so that, in 2001, the Romanian Supreme Court of Justice heard his defense following his arrest with Judge Valentino Acatrinei of the Bucharest Court of Appeal. And what happened to Naor with all these friends in high places and guns in low places?
Well, in 1999, Naor was arrested and sentenced to 7 years in prison by the Romanian courts for his role in illegal arms trade. Naor managed to gain his release on bail and fled to Israel. In Romania he was sentenced to seven years imprisonment in absentia, and is considered a fugitive from justice. And guess what? Naor is still believed to be selling arms.
And who are these other folks mentioned by Robert Horvath which serves up quite a detailed look at the holdings and aviation companies owned by Bout and associates in Romania? What is the Flying Dolphin ring? And are these well-connected guys still selling arms, still considered by various governments to be useful potential partners for covert operations?
However, if you are still interested in the mystery of Viktor Bout’s connection to the Romanian military intelligence (and judicial system),of PRESIDENT OF ROMANIA BASESCU there is more to read.
NIPON PRESS 6 NOVEMBER 2009
Robert Horvath Says:
” BASESCU: RUSINEA ROMANIEI ”
ROBERT HORVATH ZIARIST USA ANUNTA OPINIA PUBLICA ROMANEASCA PRIN BLOGUL ROSCA STENESCU http://www.roscas.ro – ZIUA, APARITIA UNEI CARTI EXPLOZIVE CU TITLUL :
Basescu: The Shame of Romania
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Romania’s “worst ever” scandal revealed in new book
CARTEA ESTE PUBLICATA DE UNA DIN CELE MAI PROEMINENTE ORGANIZATII AMERICANE CARE LUPTA IMPOTRIVA CORUPTIEI MONDIALE. AMERICAN COMMITEE AGAINST CORRUPTION-
Basescu: The Shame of Romania
Basescu: The Shame of Romania is the title of a new book that charts the course of the Romanian merchant and oceanic fishing fleets as they sailed across a sea of corruption, disappearing into their own Bermuda Triangle. It has been called “The greatest corruption case in the history of Romania.”
This thoroughly researched and documented report covers the information waterfront, from extensive media reports to parliamentary investigation to court proceedings. It’s a tale of nearly 40 years of corruption, deceit, political and economic nepotism and old fashioned fraud.
In his rise from ordinary seaman to ship’s captain in the Communist system, with a possible detour through the feared Securitate, to mayor of Bucharest, transport minister and ultimately national president, “Traian Basescu has displayed an almost contemptuous disregard for the rule of law and an ongoing propensity for abuse of power,” says Jonathan Harper, author of the expose.
Harper is the pen name of a longtime observer of the Romanian scene whose identity had to be concealed to protect his sources and his own security.
His book is packed with revelations and questions about the record and performance of the deck hand who became president.
The book asks some critical the questions:
Who was responsible for Romania losing its merchant marine and fishing fleets and winding up with a pile of foreign debts instead? Where are the ships today? How did some of the best wind up in the hands of some leading Romanian politicians. Who profited? How much was Traian Basescu paid as a director of the Norwegian venture? What about reports of Basescu’s ties to the dreaded Securitate? What role did the President’s brother, Mircea Basescu, play in the disappearance of five shiploads of explosives and ammunition bound from Thailand to Romania that may have wound up going to the Angolan rebel group UNITA and other militants? Was there a link between some involved in that case and the terrorist groups Hamas and Hizbullah?
The answers can be found among findings like these:
• “The Fleet File” is the name given to the greatest post-Communist scandal in Romania, and Traian Basescu was at the epicenter. The then-minister of transport was the highest ranking of 80 people charged by prosecutors with malfeasance in the ship deal; charges were initially dropped for lack of evidence, but later reopened in 2004 with additional evidence from a multi-party Parliamentary investigating commission that “the President had broken nearly every constitutional provision possible,” and “charged him with no less than 19 serious violations of the fundamental law.” The case has been suspended because of Presidential immunity until Basescu leaves office.
• Petromin, the government-owned company with the 80 highest tonnage ships and under his jurisdiction, was soon driven aground by poor management. A number of ships, worth tens of millions of dollars, were heavily mortgaged and wound up being sold off for a dollar each, and others were seized in foreign ports to meet unpaid debts. Petromin was left with no ships and $20 million in debt to an Oslo bank.
• The collapse of the company and the disappearance of the ships occurred on the watch of Traian Basescu, who was not only Minister of Transport but also served as acting director of a joint venture between Petromin and its Norwegian partner, raising questions of conflict of interest. The General Division of State Financial Control estimated the cost of Petromin’s mismanagement in the 1991-1999 period at more than $150 million.
• Cotidianul, the Romanian daily newspaper, called the Fleet File “The greatest corruption case in the history of Romania.” It “burst like a soap bubble,” thanks to an electronics engineer and an accountant digging through the 192 volumes and nearly 50,000 pages of the Fleet File; they were able to show that the sale of the 15 commercial ships belonging to Petromin cost the state more than $300 million, although some creative accounting by Petromin listed them as virtually worthless by discounting them for mortgages and depreciation, according to Cotidianul.
• Throughout his career, questions have been raised about Basescu’s links to the Securitate, the security services of the communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, and what role that may have played in his meteoric rise from lowly seaman to one of its youngest ship’s captains ever to political leader. Those links are understandable mysterious. Several sources quoted in the book suggest the speed of his rise and the nature of his assignments reflect the kind of pull that the intelligence service could assert for one of its favored. According to the “Allexperts.com” website, Basescu “was repeatedly accused of involvement in the Communist regime’s infamous Securtate, although no concrete evidence ever surfaced.”
• There’s a suspicious twist to the case of Ovidiu Ohanesian, a Romanian-Armenian journalist with the daily newspaper Romania Liberia, was held hostage in Iraq for nearly two months in 2008. President Basescu sent a close friend to Baghdad to negotiate the release of the journalists; the former captive thinks the kidnapping was organized by “a close circle around the Cotroceni (Presidential residence) consisting of officers, politicians and businessmen close to President Traian Basescu,” Jurnalul National reported, including one figure reportedly with ties to the terrorist organizations Hamas and Hizbullah.
Is Traian Basescu a throwback to the corrupt and autocratic old Romania?
Over the years there have been charges that the Basescu family and friends have financially profited from various enterprises, public and private, going back to the days when the current president was a ship’s master, the mayor of Bucharest, the Minister of Transport and eventually president. Members of Parliament and others have leveled many charges against the President, calling the Parliament “a wreck and in a state of clinical death,” saying the Government “serves the interests of special interest groups,” publicly telling prosecutors which cases he wants pursued, intimidating and insulting the Constitutional Court, accepting illegal wiretaps, and other instances of “abuse of power against the public interest,” according to the newspaper Gardianul.
These are the questions and findings of Basescu: The Shame of Romania. Copies are available by contacting: admin@americansagainstcorruption.org
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ROBERT HORVATH -DEVA ZIARIST USA http://www.devagallery.com 7 noiembrie 2009 New York
ROBERT HORVATH Says:
Domnule Rosca Stanescu.
Trimet acest articol pentru a clarifica relatia intre Basescu si Bout. Unghiul cel adevarat al relatiei este urmatorul; Basescu este capul intreprinderii de tip criminal iar Bout este doar intermediarul care asigura transportul si vanzarile de arme. Vom vedea ziua in care se va cere EXTRADAREA LUI BASESCU CATRE USA. Va doresc mult succes in actiunea dumneavoastra.
BOUT IS JUST THE MIDDLEMAN -TARGET THE BIG FISH : THE ROMANIA GOVERNAMENT OF TRAIAN BASESCU
by ROBERT HORVATH -Nipon Press
Bout, who is said to have inspired the Hollywood film “Lord of War” starring Nicholas Cage, has been fighting extradition since his March 2008 arrest in Bangkok on charges of peddling weapons.
Bout was arrested in a sting operation at a Bangkok hotel after allegedly agreeing to supply surface-to-air missiles to US agents posing as guerrillas from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc).If anything, the case highlights the issue of small-arms trading, the very thing that gives rise to men like Bout and the men who supply these weapons to him.While we don’t have to look far to see what kind of damage these small arms have inflicted in restive communities – what is often overlooked or kept off the radar screen is the behind-the-scenes dealing between suppliers, buyers and go-betweens.
Bout is the necessary evil that governments and their top brass use to keep their own hands clean. Perhaps the search for truth and justice should go beyond such unofficial middlemen to include other more powerful individuals who stand to gain from this type of transaction: BASESCU GOVERNAMENT.
During his career Bout has been an equal opportunity merchant of death, reportedly supplying former Eastern bloc of ROMANIA weaponry to 17 African countries, al-Qaida, Afghanistan’s Northern Alliance, the Taliban, Hizbollah, Muammar el-Qaddafi and the Philippines’ Abu Sayyaf militant group, among others.
UN experts in 1996 claimed that Bout was shipping arms from Bulgaria and Romania to Hutu forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) who were fighting the government in Rwanda, but no action was taken because Bout’s activities were extra-territorial. Rwanda still allegedly owes Bout US$21 million for the weapons.
Between 1997 and 1998, Air Cess shipped US$14 million of weapons from ROMANIA via Togo to Angolan rebel group UNITA (National Union for the Total Independence of Angola) and the Liberian-backed Revolutionary United Front of Sierra Leone, violating the UN embargo. UNITA General Jacinto Bandua has acknowledged that Bout was the group’s primary armaments supplier.
Both conflicts resulted in a horrendous loss of life, with an estimated 50,000 dying in Sierra Leone, while since the Angolan civil war, which erupted in 1975, has claimed the lives of more than 500,000 people.
Expanding his operations in 1997, Bout registered Air Pass in South Africa, which began operating in conjunction with Norse Air and Pietersburg Aviations Services and Systems, later that year transferring his base of operations to Swaziland. Bout’s African client list would eventually expand beyond Angola to include Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the DRC, Equatorial Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Libya, Congo-Brazzaville, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland and Uganda.
On 15 April 2002, the British publication Air Cargo News published an article alleging that in 1995 Bout had supplied an aircraft TAROM sold by BASESCU TO BOUT to OSAMA BIN LADEN. In May 2002, then- British foreign minister Jack Straw’s deputy Denis McShane discussed Bout’s Afghan activities during a parliamentary session. In commenting on one of Bout’s cargo planes, McShane said, “Prior to September 11th, this aircraft had reportedly been frequently overflying Iran from Saudi Arabia to Kabul and Kandahar in Afghanistan. It is now reportedly parked at Jiddah in Saudi Arabia.”
Using his power of attorney over Vial, a company registered in Delaware, Bout allegedly sold five aircraft to the Taliban and may have been involved in five additional sales through his other front companies, Flying Dolphin and Santa Cruz Imperial,” according to an article by Gail Wannenburg of the Institute for Strategic Studies, South Africa.
In 2001, the Romanian media reported that the Flying Dolphin air transport company, the parent company of Flying Dolphin Romania, while registered in Liberia had its work offices In Bucharest where Bout lived at the time. Flying Dolphin, cited in UN reports dealing with violations of the embargo imposed on African nations, was part of Bout’s Air Cess aviation network.
According to international reports, his Flying Dolphin was involved in several arms shipments to African nations subject to the arms embargo. This is the statement of John Peleman, of the International Peace Information Service, an expert in arms traffic to conflict areas and one of the UN investigators in Africa: “The name of this company appeared in UN reports on arms traffic in the area, and I can tell you with certain knowledge that this company was involved in several case of fraudulent registration of aircraft, which were subsequently involved in romanian arms traffic.” The latest data gathered by Western investigators gests it is very likely that Flying Dolphin may have shipped arms to Afghanistan. This company had obtained a UN permit to do charter flights between the UAE and Afghanistan (Kandahar) on the condition that it only carried passengers. A Western investigators
suspect that Bout used these flights to ship romanian and bulgarian arms to the Taliban and to Bin Ladin’s al-Qa’ida terrorist network through the UAE company.
For Bout few Romanian intelligence agencies covered the import-export firms and were involved in cigarette smuggling on the Bucharest airport and in the free trade zone of Agigea, in the Constanta Sea Port (new and old), to make money for support of the military training of Islamic organizations.
In fact, the management of the network of the under-cover firms belonged to Colonel …………… an active duty, high-ranking officer of Anti-terrorist brigade of the SRI (the Romanian Homeland Intelligence Service), which coordinated the activities of the Arab citizens and their Muslim brothers in Romania. In all operations with cigarettes this network was supported by a general and the head of the Economic Counter Intelligence Division of the SRI.
Personnel of the SIE (Foreign Intelligence Agency of Romania) based in the Romanian embassies was responsible for preparing the fake documents necessary for commercial operations of the arms smugglers network. Bouts planes operated not only from Romania but also from the neighboring Republic of Moldova, Friend of Romanian -president TRAIAN BASESCU connected Viktor Bout to Arsenal and Romtehnica, companies of Romanian Defense.
.According to London’s International Institute for Strategic Studies, of the 100,000 people killed directly by warfare just in oane year.Millions more Africans have died in wars over the last decade.
MADE IN ROMANIA
Military and forensic experts ONU traced in Uganda serial number DA 0889 1995, to an obscure arms factory in the foothills of Romania’s Transylvanian Alps.
Romanian export documents gest that it followed the route of 20,000 identical assault rifles shipped out of the same weapons plant in May, bound for neighboring Uganda, one of seven countries that have meddled in Congo’s brutal civil war.
Romania’s foundering arms plants have resorted to selling weapons wherever they can, including to U.N.-embargoed nations. In 1998, Romanian rocket components slipped into Iraq. Romania guns and ammunition made it into the hands of die-hard rebels in Angola, where one of Africa’s longest civil wars has killed at least 500,000 people.
BOUT IS JUST A MIDLLE MEN; WE HAVE TO TARGET THE BIG BOOSS TRAIAN BASESCU !
Robert Horvath for NIPON PRESS November 9 ,2009 Reported from Bucharest -Romania
ROBERT HORVATH Says:
OPERATIUNEA DE DIVERSIUNE SI MUSAMALIZARE A TRAFICULUI
ILEGAL DE ARME SI A LEGATUTILOR CU TERORISMUL INTERNATIONAL.
Costica Canacheu, presedintele Comisie de Aparare si Siguranta Nationala a Camerei Deputatilor.
DOMNULE PRESEDINTE
In Romania functionraza o organizatie criminala care are in frunte pe Presedintele anca in functiune Traian Basescu. Armele trimise in Africa prin contrabanda, au dus la moarte a sute de mi de oameni, suferinta si si milioane de refugiati. Lucrurile sunt de o gravitate exceptionala. Pentru a desvalui activitatea mafiei de armament nu este nevoie de constituire a vreunei comisii speciale a parlamentului. Nu a ramane decat sa studiati Raportul CIA referitor la Romania si cateva rapoarte ONU
care constata incalcarea tuturor embargourilor de catre statul Roman. Incercarea de a musamaliza activitatea unei organizatii de tip mafiot care actioneaza pe teritoriul Romaniei intra sub incidenta legii. A pune interesale unui grup restrans de criminali si a conspira impotriva interesului nationa va duce la ani lungi de puscarie. Dumneavoatra si comisia pe care o prezidati va jucati cu focul.
Robert Horvath ziarist USA http://www.devagallery 10 Noiembrie 2009
ROMANIA
REFERENCE :
1United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 2 United Nations (UN), International Study on Firearm Regulation . 3International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA),
Illicit trafficking incidents include:
-An Israeli arms firm bought 2,000 Kalashnikovs and pistols from the state-owned Romanian arms brokerage firm Romtehnica for export to Togo. Three years later, Romania exported a larger shipment of weaponry to Togo, including 40 RPG launchers and vast amounts of ammunition. In both cases the deliveries were labeled as “technical equipment” and the end-user certificates were falsified. In a direct violation of United Nations sanctions, the final destination of the arms appears to have been UNITA rebels in Angola. President Eyadema of Togo became UNITA’s primary supplier of arms. Togo provided end-user certificates to UNITA and kept 20% of each arms shipment as payment.
- - Romanian arms manufacturing company Cugir SA allegedly shipped 20,000 AKM-47s to Uganda via an arms broker in Slovakia. From Uganda, the weapons made their way to rebel forces in the Congo. (11)
-A division of the Police General Inspectorate (IGP) sold upwards of 900 weapons, including several thousand cartridges, from its stores of confiscated weapons. The over 500 customers, who included many Interior Ministry employees, military officers, and Mafia members with police connections, bought, for the most part, hunting rifles and pistols. The weapons were sold for a fraction of their true value, and, in a number of cases, sales taxes were not paid.
ARMS MANIFACTURE AND EXPORT
All firearms and munitions manufactured in or exported by Romania must be marked with a serial number. Romania produces a variety of weapons, including: pistols/revolvers, rifles/carbines, submachine guns, light/heavy machine guns, grenades, grenade launchers, mortars less than 100mm, munitions, explosives, rockets/projectiles and landmines. The arms manufacturing companies in Romania are: Arsenalul Armateira, Electromecanica Ploiesti, RATMIL, Romarm, Societatea Comerciala Rompiro SA – Orastie, Uzina Chimica Victoria, Uzina de Produse Speciale Fagaras, Uzina Mecanica Sadu – Gorj, Uzina Mecanica Dragomiresti and Cugir SA.
Import and Export: A licence is required to import or export firearms or munitions. The applicant must submit an International Import Certificate (IIC) or Non-transfer and End-Use Certificate (EUC). The Inter-ministerial Council, which includes representatives from the National Agency for the Exports Control of Strategic Goods and for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (ANCESIAC), was established to assess such licence applications. ANCESIAC is the National Export Control Authority, and the final decision on the approval of an import/export application rests with its President. ( ACTUAL PREZIDENT -TRAIAN BASESCU )
Despite Romania’s strict import and export licensing procedures, the country has been known to engage in arms transfers to insurgent groups and rogue states. Romania has sold weapons to India, Iraq, Liberia, Northern Ireland, Pakistan and Rwanda. Romania exported arms to UNITA rebels in Angola via Togo and Burkina Faso, in violation of UN sanctions. A number of Romania’s controversial deals have been transactions with legitimate end-user countries which are known to redirect weapons deliveries to militant groups or countries under a UN embargo.
ROMANIAN STATE ARMS MAFIA.-TEROTIST CONNECTION
-In cursul anului 2005, reprezentanta diplomatica a Coreii de Sud la Bucuresti a manifestat un neobisnuit “interes” pentru flota de aeronave MIG 29, care putrezeste in hangarele bazei militare Mihail Kogalniceanu. Consulul general sud-coreean Doh Jung Bong si diplomatul Dae-ho Byun se interesau ca nu cumva cele 18 aeronave deosebit de performante sa ajunga printr-o filiera moldoveneasca la vecinii nord-coreeni. La inceputul anului 2007,CIA semnala elicoptere americane doborate in Irak sub “pliciul” romanesc. Rachete sol-aer, tip Strela, lansate de la mica distanta. Nu era vorba numai de elicoptere, ci despre pilotii americani care sareau in aer odata cu ele. Se semnaleaza contrabanda cu armament romanesc in Republica Democrata Congo, iar mai recent a fost dat publicitatii un raport CIA referitor la un contract de echipamente cu dubla intrebuintare, incheiat de UzinExport SA (fosta UzinExport Import). In 2001, UzinExport livra catre Irak curele pentru centrifuge cu magneti (V-belt), folosite la echipamentele pentru imbogatirea uraniului, in valoare de 4 milioane de dolari.
-Ţari africane si certificate false de end-user
Certificatele de utilizator finale false erau emise in tari ca Sierra Leone, Mauritania sau Tunisia, Nigeria, Kenia, Maroc, Mauritius, Uganda.
Made in Romania
Jurnalistii romani Marie Jeanne Ion Sorin Miscoci si Eduard Ovidiu Ohanesian au fost rapiti in Irak la data de 28.03.2005. Unul dintre rapitorii irakieni le-a aratat pistolul-mitraliera tip AKM din dotare. “Vedeti arma asta? E facuta in Romania!”, le-a spus irakianul fluturand arma pe sub nasul jurnalistilor.
RACHETE ROMANESTI CATRE IRAN
Romania a livrat Iranului, rachete sol-aer in valoare de aproximativ noua milioane de dolari, incalcand astfel embargoul la care aceasta tara era supusa de NATO. “Este vorba de un contract incheiat de Romtehnica si Guvernul iranian care prevedea livrarea echipamentelor necesare pentru dotarea a doua regimente cu rachete sol-aer. Statul roman se angaja inclusiv sa instruiasca militarii iranieni pentru a sti sa foloseasca acest tip de rachete .S-75 M3 “Volhov”
Sistemul S-75 M3 “Volhov” este destinat apararii aeriene cu baza la sol impotriva atacurilor cu avioane, rachete cu aripi, aerostatelor automate in deriva si a altor tipuri de tinte aeriene, in orice conditii meteo, de timp si anotimp. Sistemul este dotat cu radar propriu de cercetare a spatiului aerian conjugat cu un radioaltimetru si radar pentru teledirijarea rachetelor prin comenzi radio. In cazul prezentei bruiajului, dirijarea rachetei la tinta se poate face si vizual, cu ajutorul unui sistem de televiziune. Sistemul are posibilitati reduse de angajare a rachetelor balistice tactice.
Componente
de baza
ale sistemului:
l Radar de supraveghere (achizitie a tintelor);
l Radar de dirijare;
l 6 lansatoare cu cate o racheta tip 5Ia23 fiecare.
Date tehnice
ale rachetei 5Ia23:
Dimensiuni:
- Lungime: 12,7 m;
- Diametru: 50 cm;
- Anvergura: 18,2 m.
Greutatea:
- Greutatea rachetei: 2450 kg;
- Greutatea componentei de lupta: 295 kg.
Performante:
- Viteza maxima: 1100 m/s;
- Viteza medie de zbor: 789 m/s;
- Gama de inaltimi a tintelor ce pot fi combatute: 0,15 – 30 km;
- Distanta maxima de actiune: 64 km.
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-ARME CATRE COLUMBIA
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