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Procurement of disinfectants by hospitals : the situation is more complex than it looks at first sight
The inquiry into the procurement of disinfectants by hospitals has been going on for quite long because the situation is more complex than it looks at first sight, governmental Spokesman Dan Suciu told a news briefing at the Government House on Thursday.
Asked about what reports Prime Minister Dacian Ciolos had in mind two weeks previously when he was claiming that there were dedicated contracts for the procurement of disinfectants, Suciu said the reports will be made public when all the requirements are met to do so.
"We will make them public, when they meet the requirements and the prime minister signs that he has learned about the situation. (...) When the inquiry is over. By our estimates, the inquiry has been going on for quite a long time because the situation is more complex than it seems at first sight; allow me to come up with details when the inquiry of the control team is over. (...) The control teams of the prime minister and the Health Ministry are currently conducting inquiries at various hospitals and one hospital is currently being inspected, while others were inspected in the previous weeks," said Suciu.
He added that it should be remembered that part of the inquiry is into criminal offences and the control team may submit findings to prosecutors if it so wishes. "Please, do not ask me to say whether or not such documents have been sent to prosecutors, because I do not want to talk about a procedure that regards an ongoing criminal probe," said Suciu.
Asked whether or not the prime minister made his statements two weeks previously based on findings of the control team, Suciu said they were based on findings as of that time.
"They were made based on findings as of that time (...) coming from all the institutions under the prime minister's coordination. At the time, he was also acting health minister, so he got information from the ministry and the ministry's control team as well. So, there is much information that has to be corroborated and structured as thus. (...) Part of the information could be included in the criminal probe," said Suciu.
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Prosecutors with the National Anti-Corruption Directorate (DNA) have ordered a criminal probe of Hexi Pharma CO SRL drugs maker for tax evasion and of Flori Dinu, the CEO of the company, for being an accomplice to tax evasion.
Also in this case, Uliana Ochinciuc is investigated under court supervision for money laundering.
DNA argues that in 2008 - 2016, Hexi Pharma recorded fictitious business in its bookkeeping documents involving the purchase of assets in order to avoid taxation and decrease the tax due by 8 million lei, the amount estimated by investigators at this stage of the probe.
The prosecutors ordered a lien on ill-gotten mobile and immobile assets and bank accounts as a result of tax avoidance and money laundering, all assets subject to special confiscation powers, as follows: 23 buildings in Bucharest City and Ilfov County; 32 motor vehicles, pieces of equipment and installations for production purposes, bank accounts opened in Romania, Cyprus, Switzerland and Germany by the ones implicated in the commission of offences and those who stood to gain from the offences.