This is what the mafia looks like and this is what a country without justice looks like

Photo: Vlad Oprea, refusing to answer the Recorder’s questions

“God, you are so sick! / God, how sick they are!”- says the mayor of Sinaia to the journalists who worked on the Recorder-Cartel investigation from the Carpathians.

About how big the corruption is, how mayors, heads of parties, heads of state institutions, individuals protected by services, companies, intermediaries got their hands across the country and across the country. This is what a cartel looks like, this is what the mafia looks like.

And this is what a country without justice looks like.

This is what they want – access to all resources, they legislate, they administer. And they want to sleep in total silence. Let everything be opaque, let nothing be seen, nothing be heard. And let them devour, like locusts, everything. According to CTP, the grasshoppers will be heard chirping after the elections, if PSD and PNL control everything.

In a normal country, an individual like the mayor of Sinaia would be investigated from today – he and his entourage, by all institutions, from Money Laundering, to DIICOT and DNA. In Romania, he is building the villa for former MAI minister and general secretary of the PNL, Lucian Bode.

A lot strikes you in the Recorder’s investigation – from the thirst for luxury and opulence, to the boorishness of the parties at which Mayor Oprea himself sings into the microphone (or the shiny jackets of the upstarts).

And if you want to see how some gangs set their claws on the country, the fragment with the RA-PPS villa, where the mayor of the city celebrated his birthday, is very relevant. The crème de la crème of the PNL came to congratulate him, from the minister of culture to leaders of all categories. A flagrant violation of the RA-PPS law – the palace in question, according to the law, cannot be rented or given, used, for private events. But who cares?

Don’t be surprised by Mayor Oprea de Sinaia’s course of action. The recipe has been patented for many years by the mayor of Sector 3 – he runs a sector, builds roads, bridges, systematizes with public money the areas of the city where his family and himself build blocks of flats and houses.