National Press Review, April 4

“Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu three times richer than Boc?” –asks ROMÂNIA LIBERĂ and adds: “after discussions behind closed doors, the prime-minister Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu has allocated yesterday almost 650 million lei in order to pay the mayor’s debts and to continue the projects in progress.

The amount is three times bigger than the funds allocated by Boc government for the entire year 2011 –declares the daily and refers to the presumed relation between the loss of money and the recent departures from the Liberal Democrat Party (PDL).

The hypothesis is sustained by leader of branch Buzău, the Democrat-Liberal deputy Cezar Preda.

Also, ROMÂNIA LIBERĂ lists a part of those who have left PDL in the last period and points also the last counties affected by these departures.

ADEVĂRUL writes about the situation from the Bucharest Commerce Chamber, after the president of this institution, Sorin Dumitru, and other two subordinates of him were retained yesterday by the National Anti-Corruption Department (DNA) prosecutors.

They are accused of repeated blackmailing within the working place, after they would have pretended protection taxes to the Commerce Chamber employees.

The author of the article reveals what amounts would have managed these three to obtain through these methods from the subordinates and makes a short presentation of the Bucharest Commerce Chamber president’s activities.

In the end, EVENIMENTUL ZILEI presents an interview with Cristian Bota, the head of the company producer of drugs, who have invited Romanian oncologist at a profile congress in India.

He explains the necessity of doctors’ continuous medical training and adds the fact that these programs, through which various companies sponsor doctors’ professional preparedness, are legal.

Apart from the development of this subject, Cristian Bota infirms any relation of the company that he manages with the morphine scandal, taking into account that the firm is neither the producer of this kind of products, nor its distributor.

Translated by Alexandra-Diana Mircea
MTTLC, Bucharest University