The joint stock company Metalferos has a new director general. This is Igor Cujba, who was presented to the staff by the director general of the Public Services Agency (PSA) Mihail Rusu on December 26, IPN reports.

According to the PSA, Igor Cujba was chosen at a contest. During the past three years, he worked in Bucharest and managed a number of private companies. Earlier, he served with Mechel Service Global in Romania and Poland. Before leaving the country, he worked in the police force for 15 years, holding also executive posts, such as that of head of the Ungheni and Nisporeni Police Inspectorates.  

Earlier this month, seven persons were arrested following about 50 searches carried out at the metal waste company Metalferos and associated companies. These are suspected of appropriation of funds from Metalferos. According to the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office, the suspects employed a scheme to buy and sell ferrous and nonferrous metal through fictitious intermediation activities so as to artificially increase the purchase price and to artificially decrease the price of selling metal to intermediaries. They appropriated the difference. The damage was assessed at over 215 million lei.

The authorities initiated a package of laws aimed at breaking up the monopoly of the enterprise and at liberalizing the scrap metal export market.