The Employers’ Association of Road Carriers (APOTA) welcomes the authorities’ intention take back over the public network of bus stations, saying that this was should have happened in 2022, when the state terminated the lease with Gările Auto Moderne. According to APOTA, not doing it sooner allowed “the Vîlcu-Andronachi group” to make about 60 million lei in profit that could have gone to a state company instead.

APOTA reiterates that the delay is due to “high-ranking officials who act in the interest of the oligarchic group and feign all kinds of processes and activities that have no finality”.

“These officials are minister Andrei Spînu and APP director Roman Cojuhari. We understand that today’s actions (…) take place because these two officials have already exhausted their excuses and their higher-ups want answers”, APOTA said in a press statement.

Earlier today, APP officials appeared at the leaseholder’s headquarters in a bid to enforce the takeover. The company’s lawyers promptly filed a suspension action, citing procedural and transparency violations by the Agency. The APP says there are no legal reasons to prevent the takeover from proceeding.