Investigatory commission looking for 2008 flood relief aid gone missing
Twenty-five million lei out of sixty-four million accumulated in 2008 on governmental accounts for flood relief purposes cannot be found, stated on Thursday Liberal MP Gheorghe Brega, the head of the parliamentary investigatory commission, Info-Prim Neo reports.
The fourth meeting of the commission, scheduled for today, was adjourned for lack of quorum, nevertheless Gheorghe Brega insisted on revealing some cases of flawed government spending.
“Accounts indicated that a total of 38 million lei was spent (in flood relief). But all the attempts to find any trace of the remainder 25 million lei have been in vain. Nobody seems to know, neither the Treasury, nor any other institutions”, said Gheorghe Brega.
But that's not everything that has gone missing, says the head of the parliamentary commission. “According to information that we possess, the Czech Republic donated 8 water pumps, yet the Ministry of the Interior reported that it received only 6. Also missing are 50 pairs of gumboots and two out of five power generators”, said Brega, adding 600 tonnes of diesel fuel to the list.
The Communist members on the commission (the Communist Party was in government at the time) say they didn't have the opportunity to see the cited documentation because nobody cared to show it to them, a claim denied by the commission's secretariat.
On the proposal of Communist MP Iurie Muntean, representatives of civil society will be invited to join the meetings of the commission. Next week the commission is to have its first off-site meeting, where the members will try to elucidate each separate case.