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ROMANIA: Intelligence Head Received $150,000 "from the US" |
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2005-02-11 15:32:00 |
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The heads of Romania's main secret services - the Romanian Intelligence Service-SRI and the Romanian Foreign Intelligence-SIE - are doing well financially, according to their wealth statements over the last couple of years. Even more so, if they have relatives abroad, as is the case of SRI head Radu Timofte.
Timofte says claims the $100,000 that appeared suddenly in his wealth statement once come from his US-settled sister. After another five months, his accounts boasted 50,000 euro more, money that he says he received from the very same sister.
Other secret service heads cannot blame it on donations, but boast with land, houses and expensive cars. According to their wealth statements, SIE directors are considerably wealthier than their colleagues in the SRI.
Unlike politicians, whose statements must be published on the Internet, wealth statements in the case of secret service leaders are harder to access, as they only appear in the Official Gazette once yearly. For 2005, they would not hurry to state their wealth so far.
Source: Romania Libera
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