[Mb-civic] Fw: Private Interests: The privatization of Romania's oil industry has enriched the well-connected-and corrupt

[Harold Sifton]

> Private Interests
> The privatization of Romania's oil industry has enriched the
> well-connected--and corrupt
>
> ICIJ member Paul Cristian Radu reports on Romania's oil industry for the
> Center for Public Integrity.
>
> WASHINGTON, January 25, 2005 - Iosif Dan, a top advisor to Romanian
> President Ion Iliescu, explained in a recent interview with the Center
> for Public Integrity why he had accepted money from a petroleum company
> vying for a piece of the country's oil-privatization action.
>
> "I have taken some money from these boys, as a loan, and this seems
> perfectly okay to me," Dan said. "Should I have gone to a bank that
> would give me money with ... interest instead of going to these people?
> They are my friends."
>
> To read the full report log on to http://www.publicintegrity.org.
>
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>
> Nathan Kommers
> Center for Public Integrity
> 910 17th St. NW
> Washington, DC  20006
> ph: 202-481-1221
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