PREFACE
There is no way I can begin my second volume of the trilogy “MICROSOFT – the Guardian Angel” without firstly focusing on one of the most serious allegations in my first book, issued in June, an allegation that was also printed on cover IV of the volume. I quote accurately:
As a result of five years of reporter investigations, I have the feeling that the IT giant was imposed on the market using heavy political police instruments. Even if no blame can be brought – for now – on Bill Gates’ company, the mega business has only one beneficiary: the MICROSOFT COMPANY.
Consequently we will have to shed some light on my legitimate interest in this trilogy. I have also taken to make the case public to meet the directions and recommendations of the European Union, which call for such situations be made public, throughout the entire community territory, precisely for a broader acknowledgement of the criminal phenomenon and of high level corruption. In other words, to quote Monica Macovei a Romanian EP: “let’s not pretend we’re unaware” of what this is about and how we should go about the generalized corruption in Romania. This is because Europe considers software and IT&C development as a strategic field,
8 MICROSOFT THE GUARDIAN ANGEL - UM 0666 9 of major importance for innovations in information categories as “ok”, “uncertain” and “action needed” technology, so that the old continent should be in the (see Appendix 1). position to enter an equal competition with the USA, Likewise, the ECIS Report speaks about on legal grounds, mutually agreed by the two parties. hundreds, maybe even thousands of cases where Microsoft has employed anticompetitive practices, At first I intended the second volume of the and other wheeling and dealing that are just as trilogy “MICROSOFT – the Guardian Angel” to be illegal, in order to eliminate competing companies on entitled OLAF, if we could have secured information the IT&C market. ECIS, the European Committee for from this community body. Unfortunately, and Interoperable Systems is one of the most prestigious despite our legitimate interest, relevant information professional organizations in the filed, and is has not reached us yet, so that we had to continue internationally known. It is so prestigious that the with the volume U.M. 0666. It is to be noted that the First Instance Court in Luxemburg has admitted in first book of the trilogy has been sent to all European the trial Europe vs. MICROSOFT both the Report in Commissioners, including the heads of OLAF, question and the ECIS as an integrated part of the accompanied by the English version. Nevertheless, litigation. only five commissioners have sent us a reply and said they had forwarded the request for information If we should add that Bill Gates had allegedly to those in charge. Two were given to the been accused by White House officials that he was Competition Commissioner and three to the heads of not a hero, but a high tech terrorist, things begin to OLAF. This proved to be superfluous, as we had take a frightful shape. At reading the title of the book, already sent the book and its translation to every readers might question the connection between body. Consequently I am looking forward to find out MICROSOFT and Military Unit 0666, the previous from this institution handling European Funds if we Direction V of the Securitate in Romania, a symbol of are dealing with a “non case” as per the leadership the criminal way of the communist regime to “deal” of OLAF in 2005, or a real case as they have stated with persons “hostile” to the regime. Before later on. emphasizing the similarity between MICROSOFT and M.U. 0666, I will explain the definition of “hostile” * during the late regime. It is the precise individual who takes to fight the system on an ideological, dogmatic It is well known throughout the world that the level. He would not support, yet more fight MICROSOFT Corporation giant sets up policies that communist dogma. The state had set up institutional trigger fear, uncertainty and doubt, notions that are instruments against these elements, both overt and assimilated to political police and to terrorism in classified, meant to eliminate all guises of ideological general. It is known as well that they target competition. journalists that they label on black lists in three
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In the rule of law – allegedly – in a democratic In 2005, when I published the first press article and multi party state, there is no political competition on intellectual piracy in question, it didn’t even cross between the individual and the state, and is replaced my mind that that there could be an involvement by by an economic competition, which is based on new MICROSOFT Corporation and even less so of UM strategies. 0666 – Direction V of the Securitate. I was to find out The benchmark of this book (SC OMNIS later, with amazement, that the owner of OMNIS GROUP SRL vs. SC ROMANIAN SOFT GROUP had been “operatively handled” before by COMPANY), intellectual piracy, where the the hideous communist structure, in the early ‘80s, MICROSOFT Corporation is highly involved, is by means of political police. And that MICROSOFT is nothing but a representative case study, a modus involved in draining a highly successful software operandi, due to the way in which instruments and application, created by OMNIS GROUP after efforts means of political police are put to use by the IT and investments of over ten years. giant in promoting its own economic interests. I am not afraid of being blacklisted by the IT To penetrate the IT&C Romanian market, giant, as Bill Gates’ men could not lay me off. Today MICROSOFT had to rely on high officials, many of I am an investigation media freelancer and writer. them top members of the Securitate or descendants Yet with respect to the new Securitate oligarchy, to thereof. Registered methods of the past were kept which I will refer extensively hereafter, I must admit a up, yet not their purpose. If in the past they reservation. Just like the former Minister of Justice, annihilated political “hostiles” of the system, they Monica Macovei, when she tried to reform the have now passed to annihilating those who could system she was leading. And even more so when infringe the economic interests of MICROSOFT, a she closely avoided being blown up in her own company that has been associated with the house, after which she found herself destitute. Romanian state since 2004, within a so called strategic partnership. This partnership costs us a lot Last Minute of money, and brings the Americans a substantial profit; even more so as they have found a doorway We hear from qualified sources that OLAF (the for a mechanism for accessing European funds. European Office for Combating Fraud in Brussels) is Of course, I cannot support the assumption that intensively investigating the case which happens to MICROSOFT would go up to physically eliminating be the subject of the trilogy “MICROSOFT – the its opponents. But, being associated with the Guardian Angel”, and finds it as extremely complex Romanian State, more than once associated with the on the European scene. This is a complexity that former Securitate, I can assume that there are crosses the Atlantic, reaching the USA. At the end of persons to commit the assassination. Networks such last month (28 of June 2010), two days after his as in the case of Cătălin Voicu and Mihai Caraman. American visa had expired, American authorities
12 MICROSOFT detained Alexei Karetnikov near Seattle (to be precise in Redmond, headquarters of the MICROSOFT Corporation), unofficially accusing him for espionage for Russia. He was an employee of the IT giant as a software tester and is believed to have been in touch with the 11 Russian spies extradited to Russia, within an exchange for 4 American spies CHAPTER I extradited to the USA. It is interesting that the 23 years old man, who was eventually permitted to Illegal Practices by the MICROSOFT Giant leave to Moscow, had previously worked in a ghost company in our country, called “Neobit”, established On March 31 st 2009, ECIS set up a report of in 2003 and specializing in Software. According to several tens of pages, with references to other “Washington Post”, representatives of “Neobit” with thousands, to the attention of Governments and headquarters in Bucharest denied that Aleksei other partners – who could think of associating with Karetnikov had been their employee. I wonder: if he MICROSOFT, regarding the “anticompetitive were, could they have admitted the connections with behavior and prejudice of the consumer” practiced a character suspected to be a Russian spy in the by the company. USA? ECIS is a 1989 established NGO, which pleas for a favorable environment for promoting IT&C interoperable solutions and is represented by a number of professionals in law and information technology. The Committee sees that all systems co function, just as “Word” is compatible with “Windows”, “Excel” and all MICROSOFT software, but not with Macintosh, Unix or others. In other words, once in the MICROSOFT instruments, the consumer should no longer be a captive user of the company. For a better understanding of implications, we quote from the ECIS report:
On January 15 th 2009, the European Commission released a new Statement of objections addressed to MICROSOFT, with an emphasis on “the preliminary point of view of the Commission
14 MICROSOFT THE GUARDIAN ANGEL - UM 0666 15 providing that the joint sale of Internet Explorer “middleware” threats, such as the NESCAPE browsers and “Windows” operation systems infringe browser. the provisions of the EC Treaty regarding the abuse Even though MICROSOFT has paid over the of dominant position (Art. 82) and distorts a real years many hundreds of millions of dollars in competition between competing web browsers”. misinterpretations regarding anti trust laws, these The recent Statement of objections of the amounts have been a small price for such an European Commission validates the actual and important source of revenue. urgent need to address MICROSOFT practices that affect freedom of the Internet, the options of the It suffice to say that in balance with the tens of consumer and competition in general. billions of USD yearly profit of MICROSOFT, the largest fine paid to the EU amounts to approx one The Pre pronounced reaction of Bill Gates: billion Euros, at the end of several years of court This anti trust campaign will fall into oblivion. trials. We have in no way altered the practices of our One of the most relevant voices in Europe, company. regarding the vast IT&C and competition field, is the previous anti trust Commissioner Neelie Kroes, The Report goes on: standing vice president of the European Commission, Commissioner of the Digital Agenda. In Over two decades, MICROSOFT has engaged the previous term she did not deny the fact that in a well planned and successful campaign to protect certain persons in the American Government have and expand the MICROSOFT monopoly, it has made pressures on her, to lessen critical statements repeatedly made market allocation proposals to its and sanctions to MICROSOFT. “The US competitors and has used a range of other anti Government has directly tried to influence the competition and non legal tactics for eliminating Competition Commissioner of the EU in favor of potential rivals, including aggressive and monopoly MICROSOFT. I said I didn’t intend to…the tactics in creating their products, as well as methods intervention was no longer made”. of INTENTIONAL DECEPTION. You can find more information on accusations against MICROSOFT in the ECIS Report in Microsoft generates profits of over 60 billion Appendix 2, where we publish a conclusions USD per year, largely from the sale of “Windows” summary. and “Office”, with a profit margin of 65 – 77% for these two monopoly products. Over the years, The Red Plague of the East MICROSOFT has set up and expanded entrance barriers for competing firms, in order to protect these Tormented by fate and by our stronger monopolies. Just as well, MICROSOFT has banned neighbors, we Romanians have had to face the
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Russian red plague. Thereafter, we established our Later, in the summer, as he had understood own communism, despite the fact that many had that whatever he had spoken was not beneficial for opposed this totalitarian doctrine. And even more his experience in the land of Miorita, he tried to had shut up for fear. We know how that was, as we rephrase it and said: “I believe that what I have said had lived it ourselves. Westerners also claim they is not what I meant. I should have said that while I know it, but in reality they don’t have a clue. And we get to know Romania better, I also understand how support this allegation by the following example, complicated and hard to understand it is for a which is as real as it gets. bureaucratic institution like the European Union”. Before the great crowd of December 1989, Many political analysts, including Emil many Westerners were wondering that Romanians Hurezeanu (former editor at “Radio Free Europe” swear so much at the party and the state leader, the 1983 – 1994) believes that the instruments of the institutions and mainly at the Securitate. “They were cold war persist even today. What they don’t realize asking “if you don’t love Ceausescu why vote for or don’t dare to say is that the instruments of him”” And this is all that can be said about the communist block countries are no longer used the Westerners perception on our tormented modern way they were in the past. The target is no longer the and contemporary history. West in an overt manner, but in a subdued one, The NATO and the EU have admitted our indirectly. The target of those using these country to their structures, and have thus legitimized instruments are European funds, embezzled to fill a state system they cannot understand, no matter the pockets of the oligarchy of the Securitate, of how much information they believe they have. The elements of secret structures and mafia type Delegate Jonathan Scheele, who had been present networks set up after December 1989. The stake is in Romania for five years, could not help either. He of hundreds of millions of Euros, if not billions, came to our country in October 2001, as the third meanwhile. Chief of the European Delegation to Bucharest, with the aim of helping the would be accession of A High Tech terrorist Romania to the EU. Meanwhile he became the top leader of the Delegation. Everybody expected that The Strategic Partnership between the official, who had learnt our language, the MICROSOFT and the Government of Romania in customs, tradition, culture, history and who knows 2004 has raised a great confusion on the IT&C what else, should know us by heart. Yet things had market. This was because Bill Gates’ giant had just not been like that. been summoned by Europe to a one billion Euros In the spring of 2004, the Head of the fine for anti competitive practices. Later on, as Delegation admitted that “Romania is a country that, Discovery Channel had just broadcast the the more you get to know, the less you understand”. documentary “The True Story of Internet Browser Wars”, where the producer John Helleman launched
18 MICROSOFT THE GUARDIAN ANGEL - UM 0666 19 an explosive disclosure from inside the White House: not know what he was talking about. Later on we that MICROSOFT Corporation was an enemy of the were to realize that he had been right, unfortunately. US Government, and Bill Gates was not a hero, but We were not beholder of the truth, he was. We were a high tech terrorist, in conflict with the whole of wrong and he was right, oh so right. mankind. We were to learn from the press that in 1989 Under these circumstances we may say (and George Bush Sr. had telephoned the Communist this is what we will try to prove along the second General Wojciech Jaruzelski (the dire enemy of the volume of the trilogy “MICROSOFT – the Guardian Solidarity) asking him to run in the elections in the Angel”) that the relevant company had associated name of the same stability. with the Securitate oligarchy that has been active in Hence we see that Americans needed and Romania for over 65 years. We will consequently perhaps still need controllable politicians in remote see that there are frightful similarities between the locations – in the name of a certain type of way of marketing MICROSOFT IT products and the democracy , since they were courting communist practices of the former Securitate. activists. Just as well, President Bush Jr. also invited us in 2004 to build a bridge for the new Russia, but What Kind of Stability Are We Talking later on “forgot” his fatherly appeal addressed to the About? Romanian people. As far as I am concerned (a notice to those who In January 1990 I was a young post revolution could claim I have Securitate penchants) things look journalist at the daily “Dreptatea” and I was received, extremely clear. I had not been a journalist before; I alongside several colleagues, by an advisor at the had worked eleven years in the Airplane Factory in US Embassy. We sat and talked and at a certain Bucharest. I joined the press in December 1989 and point our host said that the US Government was very I published my first articles on February 6 th in the pleased that there was stability in Romania. “How daily “Dreptatea”. I did not get rich; I have modestly so?” we wondered knowing that Iliescu’s communists lived in an attic bought from a loan. I drive a had taken over power by the scam called National Romanian car, whenever I can afford gas. This is Salvation Front. And the to be threefold President of one of the clearest proofs that I did not grasp Romania was then promising on the holy hammer material benefits from the new Securitate oligarchy, and sickle that it would never run as a party. But it in exchange for selling my soul. did. I felt I had to make this comment, as several “Well, there is stability as long as second rank guys on blogs were implying that I probably work for members of communist structures have taken over a certain secret service, after the launch of the first power and want a change”, he explained. We looked volume of the trilogy “MICROSOFT the Guardian at each others stunned. Afterwards we chuckled, as Angel”. we were convinced that the low ranking official did
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So to speak, my labor in the service of the verb and of the truth has brought me only spiritual satisfaction and in no way a material one. I am a poor citizen, but an honest one, as per a well known contemporary politician, you will know better… Nevertheless there is a similarity between me and certain politicians, “old and new” Securitate members CHAPTER II and opportunists of democracy. We all work or have worked with the verb. I have done it in the name of The Vlădescu Conspiracy truth, others in a demagogic manner, to alter the truth, and the last for a slice of cake, through I will continue disclosing the way in which the blackmail, intimidation, lie, threat and others. Yet Romanian State and a group of interests around the between me and them there is the difference Minister of Finances, Sebastian Teodor Gheorghe between a jeweler and a hammer smith. They both Vlădescu , have tried to exclude the company work on metal, yet the metals differ, so does the OMNIS GROUP SRL from the IT market and destroy manufacture. its owner financially, psychologically and physically, under the umbrella and the direct involvement of the MICROSOFT Corporation. To what purpose? The commercial company with a lock, stock and barrel Romanian capital, with the sole aim to create and develop domestic software, has dared to achieve the best ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) product in Europe. Moreover, they have not entered a contract with the Romanian state, not because they would not win a tender in the field, but because they haven’t been part of the corrupt system. In other words, whenever they would win a tender, it was cancelled on the spot for lack of funding for the program. This did not stop Romanian authorities to organize another tender, one or two month later, to the benefit of a company that was compliant and was part of the system. OMNIS GROUP has not taken to associate with a Government hot shot of the time, with a former Securitate member or a present day head of one of
22 MICROSOFT THE GUARDIAN ANGEL - UM 0666 23 the secret services, even though they had been Episode 2 proposed to do so repeatedly. This was before The company SC (Commercial Company) MICROSOFT became the “strategic” partner of ROMANIAN SOFT COMPANY (RSC) SRL is Voicu and Vlădescu. This is where it all started, established in 2001, with Sebastian Vlădescu as a according to the communist principle “he who is not significant partner, an always present advisor, or with us, is against us”. Minister of Finances. With only one employee – with no experience in computers whatsoever, according To be clear and in brief, this is the series of to his own statements, the company secures events: European funding amounting to 50,000 Euros, for the establishment for three new software programs. Episode 1 Out of the blue, two OMNIS employees are selected A Romanian IT company develops creativity form college and initiated into IT secrets by RSC and sets up the best software instrument, which SRL and shortly after, Vlădescu’s company launches facilitates the integration of all information within an three new applications on the market, just like a organization, be it a hospital, a city hall, a ministry, magician who performs the hat trick. One application an agency, a hotel or a factory into a unique is known as HIPOCRATE and is donated to Secret platform. The ERP, set up by numerous Service hospital (SRI – Romanian Information programmers over ten years of efforts and Service), “Prof. Agrippa Ionescu” and to the Ministry investments, ensures a transparency of data within of Interior hospital, “Prof. Dimitrie Gerota”. This has an entity and facilitates access to all types of useful ensured a notoriousness needed for the purchase of information of the procedure. The field of applicability the product by further hospitals, city halls, are: production (planning and its dynamic), commercial companies and even by the Defense administration (evidence of stocks, suppliers, Ministry. The fact that at the time Minister Vlădescu payments and incomes), salaries (the calculation was an associate of the to be Prime Minister of thereof and staff information management), Romania, Călin Popescu Tăriceanu, is of lesser accountancy (financial accounting record), immobility relevance. But, the fact that during Liberal (a record of assets and calculation of refund), CRM governance Health Minister Eugen Nicolaescu (client relations management), BI (reports, analyses, (a.k.a. Minister of Death) summons all hospitals prognoses), etc. It is in 2001 that the ISIS net under his umbrella to purchase HIPOCRATE is of software wins the prize of the best ERP product in interest indeed. Europe, within the competition “Microsoft EMEA RAD Awards”, and one year later it wins yet another Episode 3 prize in Paris for the most efficient use of standard OMNIS GROUP representatives find out that technologies (open) over the Internet. approx. 5,000 code lines which are indispensable for running the ISIS net application are to be found in
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HIPOCRATE, according to the RSC SRL website. and part of the mafia type network of Cătălin Voicu – These code lines had long been registered at the arrested and trialed by the National Anticorruption Romanian Copyright Office. Department) reach the conclusion that RCS did not steal anything, as ISIS net is to be found in the Episode 4 Navison 3.60 of MICROSOFT, or in other cost free OMNIS furthers a claim for theft of intellectual programs on the Internet. And who has the last say property to all relevant state institutions. This is when in this absurd conclusion. It is notorious people in the the owner of the company starts to be confronted MICROSOFT leadership, among whom, technical with unbelievable situations, even for communist director Ionut Lopatan, who become an expert with times. He is subject of two setups (even though the RSC SRL, on the payroll of Sebastian Vlădescu’s reader will find it difficult to believe): he is stolen a company. In other words, Lopatan claims that RSC house legally purchased from the previous owner, and OMNIS have indeed used the same and is framed to be the thief and not the damaged MICROSOFT technology, mainly the Navison party. And what is the location for such a setup? It is application and it is therefore that they reached the the very headquarters of the General Police same result, in a complicated string of events. And Inspectorate in Romania He is furthermore warned when we say the same result we mean approx. by high officers (the Director of Judicial Investigation, 5,000 code lines with the same programming Victor Nesterov) that it would be advisable for his language, the same wording and spelling mistakes. family (wife and two children) to live abroad for a This is hard to believe, isn’t it? while, as in Romania they could be in jeopardy. Episode 6 Episode 5 After several years of journalist investigation, The owner of OMNIS GROUP attempts for over we have come to completely different conclusions, five years to prove through specialized expertise and which were not seen by criminal investigation bodies official documents that the pirated product belongs to and by the law, or that have been overlooked for him. Meanwhile he is at his turn sued for an alleged self explanatory reasons. Firstly, at the time when slander; he is accused by RSC that he was envying the ISIS net application had been registered with the so called success of the latter. Despite the fact ORDA and was granted the award for the best ERP that the pirated code lines had been illegally become product in Europe, MICROSOFT Corporation was an RSC property, word for word, letter for letter, not developing such a technology and was not bearing the fingerprint of the programmer and his selling similar applications in Romania or throughout spelling mistakes, Police Investigator (Florin Minca), the world. The IT giant was to purchase a Danish Case Prosecutor (the controversial Nicoleta Bulgaru) company shortly after, for 1.4 billion USD. This and last, but not least Judge Viorica Costiniu (wife of included the Navison application that was somewhat Judge Florin Costiniu, recently involved in corruption, similar to ISIS net, yet less performing. If it had been
26 MICROSOFT THE GUARDIAN ANGEL - UM 0666 27 just as competitive, it would have participated in the spinning a gun around his finger – how justice should 2001 MICROSOFT contest, and would have be made in Romania and how to obey. Since that competed with the OMINS GROUP SRL product. Yet year, most of high ranking Securitate officers were this did not happen. co opted into the Romanian army and the new Later on, MICROSOFT introduces Navision on democratic structures. the Romanian market, and commercializes it on channels opened with the goodness of heart of the 1998 – This is the year when the bases of the Romanian State. It was a controversial strategic National Interforce Unit were secretly established, partnership. Even more so, they started claiming that from which emerges the GOC (Central Operative ISIS net was copied from Navision and other ERP Group), under the coordination of General Nicolae programs, which they weren’t developed at the time, Berechet, coming from the county of Arges, just like as explained above. Having said that, we can only the hideous communist assassin, Securitate General say that the MICROSOFT machine had no other Nicolae Ple iŃă and the “Butcher in the Home purpose, then to eliminate a credible and Ministry” Securitate Colonel Gheorghe Enoiu. The uncomfortable competitor on the IT&C market, and secret structure had permission to monitor and that is OMNIS, to allow them to promote the Danish operationally put to use all gathered information, product acquired and to control the Romanian including blackmail of high officials, magistrates and market, based on the prerogative of being a referee businesspeople. It is noticeable that even today of the IT field by the Romanian State, with Adrian nobody can confirm or deny if the GOC is still Năstase as Prime Minister and Dan Nica, Minister of operational. Communications. This was when we can say that MICROSOFT got associated with organized crime in 2001 (February 22 nd ) The Năstase Cabinet Romania, while the two parties were holding establishes the Group for Promoting Information contractual relations, from 2004 to 2013. Technology.
* 2001 (March 27 th ) – three Romanian state representatives take a trip to Seattle (Redmond), to I will further on present the reader several the MICROSOFT Headquarters, to set up due sequential and specific guidelines that I will elaborate diligence for a future cooperation with the Romanian on over the second volume of the trilogy State. “MICROSOFT the Guardian Angel”. 2001 (May 22) – MICROSOFT hands the 1990 – Delegated by Ion Iliescu, Officer Cătălin Romanian Government in Bucharest a letter of Voicu (present senator, in preventive arrest for intent, for a future fruitful cooperation. corruption) was explaining to magistrates – while
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2003 (September 17 th ) – Establishment of an agreement for the conclusion of a Strategic Partnership between MICROSOFT and the Adrian Năstase Government (Minister of Communications, Dan Nica). CHAPTER III 2003 (October 30 th ) Signature in Rome of the Government Security Program – GSP, where Old and New Securitate Members MICROSOFT is appointed sole referee on the Romanian IT&C market. Schooled and brainwashed in communist party
th schools, Russian spies of last century had an 2004 (April 15 ) – The Government of Romania extensive knowledge of their homeland history. After and MICROSOFT conclude Contract 0115RO, for an October 25 th 1917, there were more than once amount of several of tens of million USD, from 2004 moments when communist leaders were arrested by to 2009. Appendixes to the Contract increase the the crowd, or by the army or were ending under the amount to 110 million USD and a mock tender bayonets or the boots of their own people, at the extends its duration from 2009 to 2013. slightest suspicion, or subsequent to well orchestrated slander. The conclusion reached by people in secret services was that: POWER IS SHORT LIVED. This made them take over second rank power, while letting politicians kill each other. Thus, they could control and influence the destinies of their country in the shade, while enjoying all privileges of the time. It is secret services, also a source of Soviet spies in our country, who were monitoring politicians, sometimes blackmailing them to their own benefit. And whenever there was an interest they were committing assassinations in cold blood. It was with such a “doctrine” that Russian spies got to Romanian politicians, supported them, and allowed them access to the highest ranks of power, while monitoring them from a distance and quite
30 MICROSOFT THE GUARDIAN ANGEL - UM 0666 31 capable to get to their necks at all times. As they secret services, per se. It is only influenced to meet were only a handful, they co opted Romanians interests of the Securitate, who have now taken the capable of anything, even of assassinations. This is shape and guise of important secret service agents. how characters like Ple iŃă, Enoiu, Postelnicu, This is how our country has the most numerous Draghici, Goncearuk, Vlad, and many others secret services in the world, after the USA and the emerged. They have all lent a hand to setting up the UK. frightful Securitate, the scariest and most horrible If Ion Iliescu is in power, all is well. The repression instrument for the Romanian people. In Securitate members of his liking will prosper, while other words, we are talking about the puppeteers of even those in disgrace are still remembered. Things the communist system who had in essence only were the same with Emil Constantinescu. And now it served their own interests, those of the pack and of seems to be the same old story. They know that a third parties outside our borders. chain cannot resist if one link is broken. And this is I don’t want to be misunderstood. I don’t want why they protect each others, like brothers do. There the reader to believe that after 1944 it was Russian might be a syncope once in a while. Perhaps even spies and Securitate who lead this country. They directed ones, to cover the immense quietness within were not really interested in politics, as long as they the system. All in all it still is Securitate that is in were part of a mob with exponents above the law, power, but in the shade, irrespective who is leading and material advantages to their expectations. It was the country politically. also impossible for them to make mistakes and not It is noticeable that even inside this mafia there to place the bet on the winner horse, as long as are bruises. Yet these are only on an economic level, instructions were coming from Moscow. Securitate as each group tries to secure more resources. Who members only had to observe a set of rules, not to is the hot shot with the nicest villa, the most luxurious talk if not asked to, be compliant with top decisions car and largest bank accounts? Who is the hot shot and act only if ordered. For the rest, things were that sends his children to study abroad, and spends following their course. Why would they be interested his vacations in exotic countries at all inclusive and if people were well off or not, as long Moscow was for free? not sending complaints regarding politics and Meanwhile, “old and new” Securitate members communist party issues?! They were in good health deal with what they know best. Putting together files and happy. that are so much needed (maybe even more so than In a private meeting near Curtea de Arges, before 1989) in political feuds, which tend to have a former General Ple iŃă said to the close crowd certain sense of fun. It is sad for the Romanian beside him “Ceausescu was a fool, but he was our people that they won’t get rid of Securitate any time fool. We could play him as we pleased, throwing soon. This is a conclusion in the history of mankind. memos at him and influencing his decisions”. Even Moses took his people through the desert for 40 nowadays Romania is not lead by Securitate or by years, after the flight from Egypt, in order to let one
32 MICROSOFT THE GUARDIAN ANGEL - UM 0666 33 generation die out and not get to the Holy Land with merely technological input. They have all continued a mentality of slaves. In Romania we need even to serve the same two major interests: protecting and more time, in the happy circumstance that former manipulating party and state big shots and and present Securitate members should reorganize increasing their fortunes. into another national conspiracy, much more They were caught in this state by the December atrocious, inhuman, diabolic and efficient, if this is ’89 crowd. They had supposedly foreseen the event still possible. in due course and they did not take action to cut it Twenty years and more after the crowd in short. Nevertheless they put together scenarios for December 1989, the moral revolution of the society taking over the economy, special hard currency has become an illusion nobody believes in any funds, socialist state owned companies, buildings, longer. People have resigned, after so many post lands and other assets and liabilities that belonged to December disillusions that have annihilated their the entire people. hopes. This is why I am convinced that nothing Initially, Securitate apparatus were transferred relevant will change in this country in the following 30 under the control of the army, but it was obvious to years. Even more so as Europe considers us freaks, everyone that things could not have remained like and is too little interested in the problems we are that. Only a few Securitate members resigned from really confronted with. It is even less interested in all activities. A part of the high officers and their aids landing us a hand, as long as they do not have a set the bases of the Romanian Information System, deep understanding of what we have to face. Or as which was legalized on March 26 th 1990, under the long as they are not really interested. leadership of Virgil Magureanu. Consequently, many officers allegedly specialized and became The New Oligarchy indispensable in counter information, they became overnight members of the above institution with large After the seventies, Securitate members have salaries and privileges like before. Others became started reading books, to overtake their semi illiterate business people, representatives of financial interest teachers and not to make fools of themselves in their groups within the same system. They were relations with civilians and institutions abroad. Each supported in getting rich by former colleagues with of them more or less specialized in certain fields, other state institutions and in the leading political including tourism, economics, industry, IT and party positions. But since only a handful of them foreign languages. Others were co opted from these stayed in the army, there were still senior Securitate fields of activity as informers or undercover officers. members unemployed. It is for them that the Yet their methods such as blackmail, diversion, Commandment for Gendarme Troops was beating and torture, intimidation, fabrication of established, which was turned later on into the evidence, phone tapping of all kinds and all other Romanian Gendarmerie. Securitate practices have remained unaltered, with a
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The Network of Descendants and invested as the Prime Minister of Romania Continuators of the Late Regime (December 2004). One of these two companies “Leader High At this point, I believe it is time to return to the Tech SRL” was established in 1999. The same year main subject of the “MICROSOFT – A Guardian the company secured a turnover of 9.153.413.000 Angel” trilogy, by reviewing all shadow characters in old Lei (approx. 597.000 USD) from trade of medical this story, In order to explain the honored reader who supplies. Between 2000 and 2002, the company the owner of SC OMNIS GROUP SRL had to deal owned by the tandem Tăriceanu – Vlădescu ceased with, directly or indirectly, in his unequal fight with a to submit their accounting balance to the Ministry of corrupt system, with the Securitate oligarchy with a Finances, and in 2003 they reported a debt of legal system that accredits and arguments without a 460,454,000 old Lei, respectively, 14,000 USD. After blink that white is black and black is white, whenever 2004 there was no further information on the interests call for that. business of Tăriceanu and the Minister of Finances Vlădescu, as they stopped all data input in this regard. Călin Popescu Tăriceanu
Eugen Nicolaescu He was the adopted son of Liberal Dan Amedeo Lazarescu, raised and educated by the latter, but he was not recognized as father, only like Was born in Grădi tea, county of Giurgiu, a the mother’s husband. After years of imprisonment liberal, an economist and former Minister of Health for being a PNL member (National Liberal Party), between 2005 and 2008, a.k.a. “Minister of Death”. Lazarescu started fully cooperating with the Just like Sebastian Vlădescu he is an alumnus Securitate, after his release (just like his senior of the Academy for Economic Studies, graduating in colleague – Mircea Ionescu Quintus), who had also 1982 long distance courses (Notice: General Nicolae admitted to that. He found his own circumstances for Ple iŃă has headed the Securitate School in being an informer, by justifying that from the money Grădi tea form 1982 to 1989). Before, during and earned from the Securitate he was helping the after school he works at the Hotel and Restaurant families of his liberal colleagues, while sealing their Complex “Athenee Palace” within the Tourism sentence to hard labor. Tăriceanu was the business Company for Hotels and Restaurants as a partner of Sebastian Vlădescu in at least two commodities officer and an economist. Later on he companies, that he strangely enough omitted to becomes an analyst and economist at the IT Centre mention in his wealth statement, when he was for technical material procurement at the Industrial Headquarters for Special Equipment at the Ministry of Industries and Resources.
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From 1990 he works at RA RATMIL execution of a sentence of 11 years of imprisonment (Autonomous Regie for Military Technique) at the and was recently arrested in France. Shimon Naor Ministry of Resources and industry, and becomes an has been set free by several Romanian judges at the economic director (1994 – 1997) and even Director Romanian Court of Appeal, who were later on sued General (1997 – 1999). It is known that this company for corruption and sentenced to 3 – 5 years of had been established during Ceausescu’s time for imprisonment. You will find further information about ensuring armament export to Africa and the Middle the “partnership” of the two in Appendix 3. East, and had permanently been under the control of the Securitate. And even more so, all employees had been controlled by this political police service, if they Sebastian Teodor Gheorghe Vlădescu were not undercover officers thereof. After that, Nicolaescu undergoes a He is a graduate of the Romanian Academy for metamorphosis to become an active liberal, and is Economic Studies (ASE), class of 1983. He is appointed Deputy Secretary General at the Ministry employed at first as an economist for the recovery of of Public Finances (1999 – 2000) and interim credits at the Mill for Special Steal in Targoviste president of CNVM (National Liabilities Commission (Detail: General Nicolae Ple iŃă has run the – 1 – 7 July 2000). Securitate School in Grădi tea between 1982 and According to Wikipedia, “In May 2008, 1989). At the same time he is charged with program prosecutors of the National Anticorruption implementation for investments and acquisitions, Directorate have started a penal investigation paid by the IRVMR (Enterprise for the Recuperation against Eugen Nicolaescu and Deputy Cristian and Valuing of Recycled Metals that functioned Boureanu, Vice President of the PD L (who had under the control of Bucharest Securitate). This was deserted from the PNL). They were charged for a position that could have been taken only by an abuse against public interests. The two were active cooperator of the Securitate, or even an accused that in the year 2000, while they were undercover officer, members of the General Assembly of Stockholders After 1989 he joins the private sector, initially of the Romanian Lottery, they approved an importing pickles from Bulgaria, with a van, or selling Additional Act to a Contract between the Lottery and newspapers, trinkets, shorts and coffee makers in the Greek company Intracom, which prejudiced the the University Square in Bucharest. Later on we find Romanian company for more than 120 million him a stockholder, associate or director with the Euros”. following companies: Nicolaescu also was an employee of the 1. Boss Exim Trading Group, 2. Boss weapon trafficker Shimon Naor (alias Simen Construction and Consultancy, 3. EOL Renewable Herskovici), who had been in international pursuit Energy, 4. PVB Euroconsulting, 5. Ecologic Allpro, 6. since 2006 by Romanian authorities for the Leather High Tech, 7. Wine Club, 8. Team Delta
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Project, 9. VKT Environment, 10. Rom offset Ionescu” Hospital of the Secret Service and the Management, 11. Tipo Trading, 12. Aqua Fin sponsorship that was turned into a donation of the Consulting, 13. BCC. 14. Lord Expert Consult, 15. same application to the hospital of the Home Ministry Gas Prod Com., 16. Comp Banc, 17. Medist SRL, 18 (MAI), “Prof. Dr. Dimitrie Gerota”, to which I will refer Medist SA, 19. Event 4 You, 20. Hemat Rom, 21. later on. Polimed Medical Center, 22. Rapid Credit, 23. Clean The moral profile of this character, which is UP, 24. Climate Change, 25. Pulbic and Industrial playing today with the destinies of the Romanian Works Enterprize, 26. Topanel, 27. Altipo Construct, people, is subject to many pages. In a recent TV 28. CVS Constructii si Investitii Imobiliare, 29. broadcast, he admitted that the people had been lied Polimed and ROMANIAN SOFT COMPANY. to so far, but that this could not go on any longer. And if we are not pleased with the increase of the He was a Liberal at least until the beginning of VAT to 24%, we can move to another country with the new millennium, after which he failed to pay his no VAT. contribution; Vlădescu is appointed State Secretary Over the first years of the new millennium, at the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, as a Sebastian Vlădescu was the marriage godfather of responsible of the Financial Compartment. his liberal colleague, Cristian Boureanu. On this Meanwhile he sees for his own business, and occasion he got involved with the new wife of the starting in 1999 he becomes repeatedly an advisor of latter and divorced Carment Vlădescu. He offered his the Minister of Public Finances and even Minister ex wife his participation in Medist as a good bye (December 2004 – 2007 and December 2009 – present, if we should trust his confessions. As for present). Boureanu, he migrated to the PD L, the party of In a very shady manner, we will not find any President Traian Băsescu, and became one of the information on the Government site on Vlădescu’s toughest critics of the Liberals. activity before 1997, as this would not look good for Maybe it is not by chance that in 2005 Medist the already crumpled image of the Emil Boc cabinet concludes a contract for 6.5 billion Lei with the STS IV. It is mainly about his image form before 1989, (Service for Special Communications), for equipping when he was an associate of the Securitate as the cabinets for stomatology, microbiology, and internal head of the IRVMR. It is good to know that nobody medicine, while negotiating with only one source. could get to such offices (see the post December Due to the fact that Medist is in close ascension of Eugen Nicolaescu at the RATMIL) cooperation relations with at least the Home Ministry, without being especially schooled by this instrument The Romanian Secret Services (SRI), The Special for oppressing the Romanian people and without Guard and Protection Service (SPP) and STS, exactly following orders and tasks at that level. We Carmen Vlădescu was found not guilty in a car are probably right, and the evidence therefore is the accident, on 29 May 2005, in which one person died free donation of software to the “Prof. Dr. Agrippa and two were severely injured. To be more accurate,
40 MICROSOFT THE GUARDIAN ANGEL - UM 0666 41 the officers in charge of the investigation reached the Minister of Finances, or by the Cabinet at the Victoria conclusion that the deceased is to blame, as well as Palace. What can the citizens of Romania a mysterious mentally ill person who happened to understand, other that there is chaos? The Prime take a stroll in the proximity and jumped in front of Minister is to blame for that. The Prime Minister the car of Mrs. Vlădescu. should have immediately made him redundant on these grounds, but he does not have the power, he * is not capable of doing it for fear of I don’t know who. I don’t understand how one Minister can set to Exasperated by the unbelievable conduct of sabotage an entire Cabinet and make the Prime Sebastian Vlădescu, one of the Vice presidents of Minister look ridiculous, every time he takes to do the governing party, Cezar Preda declared for RFI what the country needs right now: to get rid of the (Radio France Internationale) that the Minister of floods, to get over the crisis. Finances “has sabotaged the Government”, by We are watching, just like you do, an incredible ridiculing the Prime Minster and also that the latter is situation: a Cabinet where the Prime Minister is the afraid to destitute him. In fact, no member of the last to hear what one Minister or another has to say! Government would listen to Emil Boc, as they all And, despite this fact, he doesn’t take any measures. consider him hopeless, and incapable of making him What can we do, else than tell people that we do not heard. This is the text: agree these situations, either? I don’t think this will take place (Restructuring of I am honestly very concerned. If so far, in the Government), not even in September. How can political and economic environments in Romania it anyone believe that they will carry out the internal was circulated that the Prime Minister can hardly reform in central administration, since they haven’t control his cabinet, we find these days the same done it so far? They can’t. It is now that they have situation within the Liberal Democrat Party. I, at started thinking. It is only now that they have started least, am not at all surprised by the Minister of taking decisions. And the salary reductions have Finances. He does whatever he pleases, as he been introduced on July 1 st ! And it is only now that pleases, he tells whatever crosses his mid. The we have started considering what we will have to do Prime Minister can only react to what Mr. Vlădescu inside the Government and inside the Central or Mr. eitan (Mihai, Minister of Labor, Family and Administration? It is not fair and not to be Social Protection) say, if you can recall. understood. Very many leaders of the Democrat I am sorry for the Prime Minister, for the fact Liberal Party disagree with these situations, because that he got to the point where nobody listens to him this action is not credible for the Romanian citizens. any longer. It is not good to see, as we have seen in the past, that decisions have been taken that are not agreed either by the Cotroceni Palace, or by the
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Other interesting details on the “fruitful” activity clinic for plastic surgery with his mother in law. To of Sebastian Teodor Gheorghe Vlădescu are to be this end, Murea, also known as “Doctor Death”, tried found in Appendix 4. (and almost succeeded) to steal a building from OMNIS GORUP SRL owner, Drago Ri canu. His file has been with the DNA (National Anticorruption Agrippa Ionescu Directorate) for many years, and has been belated due to its complexity, as we have word for word been This character is not very important for the told by the General Prosecutor of Romania, Laura present dissertation, but the interests that have CodruŃa Kovesi, as well as by her deputy, Prosecutor gravitated around his name, mainly after his death, Marius Iacob. I have to say that Doctor Death is are certainly important. He was a graduate of the today involved in at least two cases where he used School of Medicine in Timisoara (1952), and his dying patients’ identity to illegally get hold of specialized for six years at the School for Practical properties by forgery and use of forgery. We must Trauma of Korea War and at the gigantic Russian say that on the surgery bed of Doina Ionescu School for Plastic Surgery of Leningrad. In 1958 he Dumitrescu a patient deceased, who had called in for sets up the basis of a reparatory plastic surgery and a facial. The event was covered by the Doctors’ burns clinic in Bucharest (Str. Arch. Ion Mincu, in the College in Romania and by the bodies for criminal old Emergency Hospital building), with 50 beds. In investigation, who could have referred at least to 1959 the hospital becomes independent, and the negligently killing. only one in Romania, under the name of Clinic and You can find more on this incendiary case in Hospital for Plastic and Reparatory Surgery, with 151 appendix 5. beds. In the spring of 1990, it is not by chance that the unit is taken over by the Romanian Secret Service (SRI), under the name of The Clinic Ghizela Vass – Bogdan Olteanu Emergency Hospital “Prof. Dr. Agrippa Ionescu”. The reputed Doctor was married to the young Another very interesting case is that of former Doina, of the same profession, who continued his communist and Cominternist activist, the Moldovan tradition. Once a widow she remarried Admiral Emil Ghizela Vass, who set up the premises for the Dumitrescu, a.k.a. Cico (a FSN hot shot and financial continuity of her ancestors. Here are some Presidential Advisor during both tenures of Ion facts about her: Iliescu), and becomes Doina Ionescu Dumitrescu. She joined the PCR (Romanian Communist The daughter of the Admiral has been for many Party) in 1933, at the time when this criminal party years the concubine of surgeon Adrian Murea, at the was mainly made of NKVD agents, who had been Clinic Emergency Hospital of the MAI “Dr. Dimitrie infiltrated by Moscow. In 1945 we see her holding a Gerota”, who intended to set the bases of a private membership at the CC (Central Committee) of the
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PCR, mainly in charge with releasing Kishinev RATMIL (the Autonomous Regie of Military Moldovans “form under the Bourgeois – Landowner Technology). Afterwards, he was appointed as Yoke of Romania”, and later on for freeing advisor to the latter, eventually going on to take Romanians in the country from the yoke of Iuliu office as State Minister, Minister of Industry and Maniu and Dinu Brătianu. In the following years she Commerce, Vice Governor of the National Back of will have held the office of the Head of the Romania and even Minister in Charge of the Organizational Department of the CC of the PCR, Relationship with Parliament. Thanks to his member of the CC Secretariat and in 1958 of Head friendship with Tăriceanu, who acted as the of International Relations of the party. In 1970 she godfather at his marriage, Olteanu continued his was – so to speak – marginalized by Ceausescu, ascension right until his appointment as President of and got the office of Deputy of the International the Chamber of Deputies (2006 – 2008). Relations Department of the party, a positions that allowed her the contact with Carlos “The Jackal”, at his arrival in Romania, as she had known him for a Other interesting characters long time. She went into retirement in 1982, at the age of Mihai Gherman, CEO of the IT firm “Intrarom”, 70, and she lived most of her life in a luxurious then of “Siemens”, the son of former three term PSD nationalized building in the residential area of the senator Oliviu Gherman, who used to fall asleep Capital ( Str. Zambaccian no. 1, a neighbor of former during hearings in his tenure of the Presidency of the Prime Mister Adrian Năstase), with expensive Romanian Senate, acting as the second ranked furniture and valuable paintings. It was in that house person in official State capacity that “Bica” raised her grandson, Bogdan Olteanu, Vladimir Aninoiu, long time general director for who was still in her care at the age of 30. IBM Romania, the son of Securitate general Aninoiu The grandparents of little Bogdan on his Tiberiu Urdăreanu, reserve major, owner of father’s side had fled to Germany where they the “UTI” company group, the son of General Tiberiu repeatedly protested against the communist regime S. Urdareanu, former superior to reserve general through “Radio Free Europe”. Ladislau and Ghizela, Dumitru Zamfir and, until recently, deputy director of his grandparents on his mothers’ side, sided with the the SRI. His wife, Lucia Urdareanu, former employee communists even after Ion Iliescu came to power. of the DIA (Army Intelligence Directorate) Therefore, the young man had to choose between Alexandru Octavian Grumaz, son of general the two futures ahead. And he chose the former, as Alexandru Grumaz, former deputy of the STS, and the PNL’s ideas sounded more convincing, and also former Consul of Romania to Shanghai because he had to pass the time somehow. Ovidiu Artopolescu, former head of Microsoft In a relatively short time, he banded with Călin Romania, husband of Corina Artopolescu who owns Popescu Tăriceanu, and in 1998 worked with the a certificate of so called freedom fighting in the 1989
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Romania has been confronted with a situation ongoing for 70 years. The continuators of former communists and Securitate are their descendants, as well as new employees who have become compliant with their new selection criteria. In this context, the „Drago Ri canu – SC OMNIS GROUP SRL” case can become a case study to the attention of European autorities, for uncovering a corrupt and decrepit System that still governs Romania’s destiny. We cannot forget, that over this period MICROSOFT CORPORATION has been one of the great beneficiaries of the system, and has concluded a Governmental Strategic Partnership with the Romnaian State, and has thus become the IT&C market referee in Romania. To that we can add all permanent contracts, released in 2004, which have constantly been ammended by Additional Acts amountig to many digit figures. MICROSOFT is, as well, a partner of Vlădescu’s company SC RSC SRL, which he had defended in the software piracy scandal as deceivingly stating that the pirated programmes had been set up with the technoloy of his own company and not with that of OMNIS GROUP.
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We must repeat a halucinating detail that will year, that RSC registered the HIPOCRATE 1.0 raise question marks for all those in good faith. For application with the ORDA, which was in fact an completing the ISIS net application, all OMNIS upgrade of the British programme Telepath, employees had worked for a decade and were Romaian version. awarded by no other than MICROSOFT for the best In November 2002, following the same ERP product (Enterprise Resource Planning) in scenario, RSC sets to sponsor the paravan NGO of Europe. Te RSC SRL Company was established in the MAI Hospital „Prof. Dr. Dimitrie Gerota” with the 2000, with no employees. In 2001 they had only one pirated software (amounting to 150,000 Euros, employee, who was illterate in computers, and in wihtout VAT), wich donates the software to the same 2002, as soon as they got European finacing (from a hospital. The person in charge of apporving this PHARE Programme) to the amount of 50,000 Euros, shady transaction is the Police General Nicolae they had two employees on their payroll. And, all of a Berechet, responsible of MAI logistics and Secretary sudden, after head hunting the two OMNIS GROUP of State, on the position previously held by Cico enployees, the pirates release a top highly Dumitrescu. performing product on the market. Hocus pocus! In December 2002, RSC receives 50,000 Euros Despite of his connections with the business from the European Union, to set up computer world and the relations in the corrupt system, programmes that they had already offered for free or Sebastian Vlădescu realises that he cannot compete under the guise of a sponsorship/donation. with prestigious firms to win public tenders. The reason why entities under the umbrella of Therefore, he sets up a scam diginifying a master of the Romanian Information System and the Home evil. As an important associate and economic Ministry make high range business with a no name director of SC MEDIST he forwards to the „Prof. company in the trade(we refer here to RSC SRL), Agrippa Ionescu” hospital of the SRI a free offer, without notable results, with no contracts, no allegedly belonging to SC RSC SRL, a company references or specialists, can only be explained by where he is as well an important associate. The offer those involved. is accepted and countersigned by the controversed In reality, the application that had been so Ovidiu Soare, Chief of the Inspectorate for Defending generouly offered to the two hospitals as late as in the Constitution and Economic Security, within the September 2003, after Drago Săracu and later on SRI. The gift, amounting to 12,000 Euros without Irinel Lupoi were head hunted from OMNIS GROUP. VAT, was presented in August 2002, under the They did not leave empty handed, they took a copy brand of HIS (Hospital Information System) of the ISIS net application along. HIPOCRATE. Yet it was not delivered at the same date, as it not yet existed. Hence it was only the * promise of an offer, while delivery was scheduled for a later date. It was only in September, the same
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It is of lesser importance that an application like In the fall of 2004, Jonathan Scheele pays a Telepath does not cost more than 5,000 – 10,000 visit to RSC, as the Head of the European USD throughout the world, as it was offered for free. Delegation to Romania. Yet the fucntioning of all computer programmes In November 2004, OMNIS GROUP discovers involve maintenance. This amounts monthly to 3,000 that the ISIS application had been pirated. – 5,000 USD, money that we assume were cashed The criminal prosecution of the defendants right away after handing in the pirated application. Drago Săracu, Iriniel Lupei and Ionel Manole, an This makes the profit be double. With no effort or administrator and associate at RSC SRL, and also important investments, Vlădescu’s company gained an associate of Medist, begins in March 2005. a certain notoriousness on the IT&C market, and On May 5 th 2005, OMNIS GROUP writes to succeeded – as partner of the SRI and the MAI – to Jonathan Scheele, advising him on the spectacular convince other beneficiaries to take their product. and unjustified ascension of Vlădescu’s RSC (who This way several private companies, a Bucharest was at that time a member of the Administration City Hall, a Unit of the National Defense and several Council of Petrom and President of the Privatizing hospitasl joined this shady club. Yet, this was not Commission of the BCR) and mentioning the fact enough for Vlădescu’s greed. This is where Eugen that the legal action was pursued. After seven weeks Nicolaescu, Minister of Health steps in. Scheele responds that the EU Delegation and the By order of the Minister, all hospitals in the contracting authority will look into the situation of country were compelled to „instal” the HIPOCRATES PHARE grants for the RSC. application, a property of SC RSC SRL. The Despite this notice, which was more than company enlarged its portfolio by approx. 30 certainly known by the RSC SRL, 5 days later, on extremely profitable contracts. Even if the June 28 th , Ionut Lopatan, one of the MICROSOFT programme was sold, without any tender and to Directors, testifies, in his capacity of an expert with realtively small amounts (under 5,00 Euros), the the RSC SRL, for the criminal pursuit file stating that apparent gap was quickle filled by additional the ISIS net application had been copied from the maintenance contracts. Navision software, belonging to his company. OMNIS GROUP notifies MICROSOFT that X Raying the Disappearance of Certain Lopatan’s involvement in this story is ludicrous, and European Funds on July 3 rd he is withdrawn from the record, and gives up his capacity as an expert with the Body of The PHARE Project according to which SC Public Experts. RSC SRL was granted access to 50,000 Euros from It is interesting that up to this day MICROSOFT European grants was active between 21.11.2002 has refused to withdraw their lies to the prosecutors, and 01.07.2004. i.e. that the ISIS net application were copied from Navision. Thus they have legitimated the allegations
52 MICROSOFT THE GUARDIAN ANGEL - UM 0666 53 of the RSC SRL defendants, who were able to justify scam that was being set up and about certain Public the full compliance between the product on the Servants, who were corrupt as per the opinion of the market and the pirated one, and even more so the OMNIS GROUP. A series of documents, as well as origins of a product with no specified source (?), with an invitation to visit the company are enclosed no investments and in the absence of IT specialists. thereto. This never takes place, as the company It was on the grounds of this program that donations hadn’t pirated a product, but had created it. had been carried out, as well as free offers to the On February 9 th , OMNIS GROUP addresses SRI and the MAI, with European funding. the OLAF, for support. No answer is given. On August 29 th 2005, OMNIS GORUP writes On March 7 th 2006, a new letter by Jonathan again to Jonathan Scheele, notifying that the Scheele informs OMNIS GROUP representatives Copyright Laws and connected rights had not been that the aim of the EU Delegation is to monitor the corrected, as Romanian authorities had promised. implementation of pre accession programs, as well An explanation for this delay is that Sebastian as general political and economic evolutions etc. Vlădescu had been appointed Minister of Finances in Therefore he takes to be contacted in these respects the mean time. only, and not with blacklists of suspicious characters, On September 1 st 2005 Prime Minister Călin even if European funds were involved. Popescu Tăriceanu receives a similar letter from In April 2006 the penal investigation of Drago OMNIS GROUP, and coincidentally, the same day Săracu is suspended, on grounds of his statement the Government adopts Emergency Ordinance No. that “modules and functions of the IT application, 123, for the registration of all computer programs ISIS net, are to be found as a whole or partially in with the ORDA, as per the request of OMNIS MICROSOFT’s Navision. GROUP. On May 2 nd 2006, Cristian Unteanu from the On September 7 th 2005, Jonathan Scheele daily Ziua publishes the article “The Vlădescu Piracy rushes to declare that Romania had solved all Goes to Brussels”, speaking about an ongoing OLAF problems regarding intellectual property and the investigation. IT&C field, allowing thus the removal of the red flag. On June 23 rd 2008, ORDA releases an He then notices OMNIS GROUP that he awaits, expertise which confirms the originality of ISIS net. before pronouncing himself, the answer of the The expertise had taken a long time and it had not Romanian authorities, who were investigating the been possible to conclude it in due course. Even theft of intellectual property, claimed before. though there was a Law and the set of methods to it, On February 3 rd 2006, OMNIS GROUP tariffs had not been provided yet. The tariffs had to addresses Scheele again, claiming that the be implemented by the Ministry of Finances. And the allegation that Romania has sorted out matters of Ministry was lead by Sebastian Vlădescu. intellectual property was incompliant with the truth. On July 17 th 2008, OMNIS GROUP sends On the same occasion he is informed on the judicial another letter to the OLAF, with the description of the
54 MICROSOFT THE GUARDIAN ANGEL - UM 0666 55 case, with many relevant documents as an appendix, by the DNA, if it ever is to come, as the DGPMB has asking to be informed on the progress of the already offered one. They said that all documents investigation. There is no answer. are to be found in the criminal record at the Court (it On August 15 th 2008, OMNIS sends OLAF had been twice resent by the Tribunal to the another letter, referring to infractions of organized Prosecutor’s Office for restoring legal action, which crime by several Civil Servants. There is no answer. had been twice rejected by the Appeal Court. At last, On December 23 rd 2009, OMNIS files a Judge Viorica Costiniu, wife of Florin Costiniu, sent complaint with the European Commission, DG to Court for his involvement in the network of Cătălin COMP (Competition) against MICROSOFT. This Voicu, ruled that all representatives of RSC SRL complaint reaches the OLAF, as well, and on March were as clean as can be. 17 th 2010, DG COMP notifies OMNIS GROUP on the Consequently the appeal by OMNIS GORUP registration of the case of infringement No. 39.784. has been declined by the Appeal Court, so that the On May 26 th 2010, OLAF remembers previous complainant had to address the Constitutional Court, complaints by OMNIS GROUP over several years while the Tribunal had rejected the RDA expertise and informs the company that legal authorities in (the only institution in Romania for copyright and Romania (the DNA, the Police) have reached the connected rights), since June 2008 (as well as conclusion that there was no case of intellectual theft others incurred), keeping as an evidence only the and that no Civil Servant was involved in an expertise of tefan Stăncescu, an expert in embezzlement of PHARE funds for the RSC. computers, not software, which are completely Consequently, the OLAF does not open the different. investigation in file OF/2005/0417, that had been set The Constitutional Court judged the cause in up according to the EU Delegation to Bucharest June 2010, and now the rule is awaited. notification of May 5 th , 2005. How can we explain that the Ziua Jonathan Scheele, a Pontius Pilates, yet correspondent in Brussels had got the official Lesser information that the case is being studied? Was it being studied or not? Or is it that somebody covered It is preposterous that only a few days before up the story, or did not want to get involved for Scheele’s statement, that our country has allegedly whatever reasons? solved all problems of copyright, the State OMNIS GROUP has requested in June 2010, Department of the US had just reached a both the DNA and the DGPMB (General Police contradictory conclusion, namely, that Romania has Directorate of Bucharest) all documents at the a lot of problems in setting up tools needed for disposal of the OLAF, by which this European body protecting intellectual property rights. Could it be that for fight against fraud has provided not to pursue our authorities solved, over several month, a legal action. Presently we are awaiting a response problem that was lingering for 15 years? It is
56 MICROSOFT improbable, which makes Scheele a big liar, if that was the case. We should here mention that sources of our journalist investigation are up to 90% public documents, corroborated with statements and clues, which led us to circumstantial, common sense conclusions, which are obvious to everyone. CHAPTER V To resume Scheele’s report, which had been summoned by OMNIS in 2005, we can say that he Who Is Handling Romanian Finances had washed his hands (just like Pontius Pilates), and forwarded it to OLAF. The latter kept quiet for For those who could think to blaim me for being several years, even if we were talking about interested in this scandal for whatever reasons, I European money (and high level corruption), that this could come up with the answer that more than 30 institution was called to protect. The office had been articles have already been written on this topic.The summoned before twice, in 2008, yet in vain. I will papers refering to it are: “Ziua”, “Romania Libera”, probably address this subject, as well as the “fruitful” “Gardianul”, “Atac”, “Cotidianul”, “Academia activity of this European body in the last volume of Catavencu”, “Gandul”, “Evenimentul Zilei”, “Bilant”, the trilogy “MICROSOFT _ A Guardian Angel”, which “Prezent”, “Realitatea Banateana”, as well as three will probably be called “The OLAF Conspiracy” . TV shows and several online papers. Brussels This is because according to European norms, the authorities haven’t heard anything on the matter, institution has to protect community money, just as despite of their huge bureaucratic apparatus. An the Community itself has to protect its citizens form important thinker of mankind said that: “All great acts the tentacles of corruption. This has so far not of corruption are based a high level conspiracy” and I happened in the case “Drago Ri canu – OMNIS am 100% supporting this statement. GROUP”. This is even more so, as the owner of the Another proof in this respect is my telephone company has not been confronted with any conversation with the Minister of Finances, competitor or an ill intended person, but with the Sebastian Teodor Gheorghe Vlădescu during my Romanian State itself and its Strategic Partner, journalist investigation. For not being accused of MICROSOFT. taking sides, I am reproducing the full statement of the official, on middle May 2007:
I am once again asking you, somehow in amusement, why you are dragging me back into this mess. I have nothing to do with it. It was repeatedly
58 MICROSOFT THE GUARDIAN ANGEL - UM 0666 59 decided that no legal action should be pursued. tentacles of the octopus are, or that Vlădescu is From a technical point of view, these IT issues are involved in this story. It is, nevertheless, noticeable beyond my competence. I don’t understand these that he calls this a “scam”. Regarding the non pursuit things. There has to be a group of experts to decide. of legal action of the two employees that had It is their job. Yet the involvement of my name is deserted from OMNIS and were employed by the unpleasant, to say the least, because, by chance or RSC, which also got hold of the ISIS net application, not, I have nothing to do with any alleged intellectual conclusions are indeed dire. Maybe it is of theft. It is a long story and I hope that eventually importance that Drago Săracu’s father is a judge in justice will sort out this matter, according to morals Ploiesti, a colleague of Rebegea and Podea. And and legality, taking facts into account as they that Justice in Prahova and the SRI have been occurred. Yet bringing back my name into the matter repeatedly slapped over the last period, because of seems at least inappropriate. I would like to know several employees that had crumpled their image by how it started again; it probably has to be that way. accusing them of high level corruption and other You should continue your (journalist) investigation related issues. and let justice take its course. If something is illegal it It is extremely nice that Vlădescu admits being has to be deferred to justice. The proofs you have illiterate in IT. Yet this has not been an obstacle for should reach the Court, so that they can do their job. offering an application the SRI Hospital “Prof. Dr. I would like to know why, from time to time, Agrippa Ionescu” for free, through the mediation of somebody tries to discredit me with something that I Medist, where he acted as a significant associate didn’t do. The fact that I was an associate of RSC is (and even as a Financial Director at the time of the public. Truth has never bothered me. You will know generous “sponsorship”). Yet the program belonged very well that if you should type my name next to and in fact to the RSC SRL, where we again find alleged crime, public opinion will say: Vlădescu has Vlădescu as a significant associate, at a time when committed an infraction, which is completely false. I the company had only two employees, one of which have no problem, I only once wrote a reply, in the admitted to be illiterate in IT matters. And then, with newspaper ZIUA, and I will never do it again, and all due respect, where does the software come from, this concludes the subject, as far as I am concerned. dear honest and esteemed Mr. Vlădescu? Did it fall I was just curious to know who brings up this story off the sky? This is the same software that had also again and why. been donated to the MAI hospital “Prof. Dr. Dimitrie Gerota”. But the most important question is how did Clarifications you come up with the idea to select precisely these two hospitals, for being presented with wonderful Two years had lapsed at the time of this gifts, just like Santa would have done? Was this conversation since my first article on intellectual perhaps done on the grounds of the close relations theft, at a time when I had no idea how long the from the time when you were employed with the
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ITVMR (I must repeat, an undercover unit of the involved with Senator Cătălin Voicu’s network) had Securitate) and later on with the Liberal Party? When declared the RSC innocent for the theft of intellectual you started working with people like: Mircea Ionescu property, while obstinately ignoring the evidence on Quintus, Dan Amedeo Lazarescu, Călin Popescu record. The trilogy “MICROSOFT – the Guardian Tăriceanu, Eugen Nicolaescu, Bogdan Olteanu, Angel”, Volume II is evidence thereto. I will also have Ovidiu Soare, Mihai Berechet and their aids? to remind the Minister, that the DNA has a record The present Minister of Public Finances has that it will eventually have to take to court. This is to shown upset by the fact that his name comes up in say that not Minister Vlădescu is to blame, but his this dirty business. But how could he not be, as long actions. as he was an associate of both firms mentioned, And speaking of actions, I call on an explosive Medist and RSC and I am convinced that it was he event that was brought to public attention at the who pulled all strings: Just as MICROSOFT beginning of July 2010. We are talking about one of corporation is also involved by launching an the most important statesmen, handling all our application of a similar invention (Navision) on the money. Romanian market, while claiming that ISIS net was a After the last investment to the ministerial copy of the latter. I remind the reader that the ISIS office, Vlădescu co opted Dan Bittman to his press net product had PREVIOUSLY won the highest ERP office. The latter is the soloist of the band “Holograf”. prize in Europe, while the Danish Navision hadn’t He is a nice chap and is suited for the position as an even participated in the competition, and was inferior image advisor. Six month later he resigned and to the latter from a functional and technological point joined a “Realitatea TV” broadcast to protest against of view. We also know that MICROSOFT bought the the Government intention to tax intellectual property Danish company, including the Navision, after ISIS rights by more than 10%. In other words to net was registered with the Register for Programs at exceedingly tax creation, to an extent that doesn’t the ORDA. In this case, it is obvious that ISIS net occur anywhere in the world. could not have been copied from Navison. It was On the same occasion, Bittman spoke highly of only later that MICROSOFT bought the Danish firm the professionalism of specialists with the Ministry of for 1.4 billion USD and brought the product to Finances, alongside he had worked for six months. Romania. Nevertheless, Bill Gates’ company has “You must not believe that I don’t know what there is claimed the reverse despite of the truth. going on in this country and with its people”, the Even if so far I haven’t done it, I will try to meet singer declared. “And mainly, don’t think they don’t Minister Vlădescu’s curiosity, by explaining him that I know who steals in this country. And how much. have never abandoned this case, for more than five They are filmed, filed, listed. Everything is common years. The journalist investigation has continued knowledge. The problem is that certain people over the said period. Even at the time when judge cannot be controlled, it is forbidden to control them. Viorica Constiniu (wife of judge Florin Costiniu,
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Some companies can be controlled and others not, More Millions of EUR, a Present for the RSC that’s the thing”, Bittman added. So, what are we to understand from this How is it possible that, after all this, SC RSC statement? That generalized corruption in our SRL should not only be cleared, but also be granted country is not a figure of speech, is it? Since the another financing in 2010 – for its good behavior – Ministry of Public Finances has also been infected by this time amounting to 4 (four) Million EUR? You it, while being part of a Democrat Liberal have read well… Government, lead by Prime Minister Boc. The 3,500,000 EUR come from structural funds, statement in question extremely serious; we believe 620,000 EUR from the national budget of Romania that the DNA should take immediate action and and 217,000 EUR come from the clever beneficiary, inform the population on these events. This is SC RSC SRL. because simple citizens are confronted with austerity This means that Vlădescu’s company will measures, unemployment increases, wages of the receive further stipendiums amounting to 4,120,000 state employed are going down by 25% and it is not EUR from the Social European Fund and from the normal that the protégées of the system should not Romanian State, within the Sectorial Operational pay their debts, just because they are the clients, Program Development of Human Resources 2007 – friends, sponsors, you name it, of the present power. 2013, called “Invest in People”, for the “MEDAS – This favored people are backed – as shown above Teaching Doctors and Nurses in Hospital by a new Securitate oligarchy, the descendant of the Management and Use of Technology” project. communist secret service. At this point I don’t know why we still ask Out Dear and Beloved Justice ourselves how it is possible for a commercial company to get hold of intellectual property of In order to see how far lies and twisting of the another commercial company and receive for this truth can get, whenever we deal with a high level European funding for more that 50,000 Euros. conspiracy, we will show how certain magistrates, (Attention, the almost 300,000 USD applications had handled by their puppeteers, turned white into black already been donated at the date of receiving EU by snapping their fingers. To be more precise, how Phare funding). And how it is possible for a reputed they turn Drago Ri canu, into a deceiver – as soon judge in this country, former president of the as he turns to justice, hoping to be protected – Magistrates’ Association in Romania and present depriving him even of claiming the originality of the honorary chairman of the same organization, to ISIS net application, from which he had already ignore conclusive evidence on record, in order to received two high distinctions in the IT&C field. absolve the company in litigation. Yet question The owner of SC OMNIS GROUP SRL finds (In marks of these new times do not stop here. November 2004) that, after his employees Drago
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Săracu and Irinel Lupei had quit the firm and got a innovative, but generated from the public and free of position with Vlădescu’s company, SC RSC SRL, a charge MICROSOFT database on the Internet. new product had reached the market, which had Prosecutor Bulgaru oversees the fact that the approx. 5,000 source code lines in its property. In the 5,000 source code lines had been pirated word for absence of these source code lines the RSC word and punctuation, including the signature of the fraudulent application could not have functioned. programmer , bad wording and spelling mistakes and They file a complaint with the Police and other clings to a detail that appealed to her. She found it places, after which they file a criminal complaint interesting that ISIS net was not innovative. It didn’t against the two, accusing them of the theft of the matter to her that OMNIS had received two ISIS net product. Nicoleta Bulgaru is in charge of the international awards from MICROSOFT for the court trial with the Prosecutor’s Office at the relevant product. Bucharest Tribunal. It a Magistrate transferred from This is when the so called expertise by Prof. Constanta, a.k.a. “Police Mafia Prosecutor” and Stefan Stefanescu steps in, a specialist in hardware involved in four investigations for several corruption and not in software. He says that the technology deeds, alongside police officer Grigore Pesterau. used is NET, as if this was the question, and not the They had both been cleared of all accusations. While paternity of the pirated product, ISIS net. Even more, the case was instrumented, Bulgaru was taking in his professorial capacity, Stoicescu concludes that statements by those involved, according to the “OMNIS GROUP did not prove the creation of the procedure. The defendant Drago Săracu declared common code, did not present logic patterns or that “the modules and functionalities of the IT designs for development projects, which has lead to application ISIS net are to be found partly or totally in the conclusion that creation evidence was lacking”. other well known IT applications, such as And Prosecutor Bulgaru grasps this MICROSOFT’s NAVISION”. This explains the fact explanation, proving a huge lack of professional that the pirated ISIS net program extensively training, but also a lack of logic and common sense. resembles to the HIPOCRATE version, successfully The logic is that the plaintiff doesn’t have to prove marketed by RSC SRL. that the products belong to him. It is the defendant or Irinel Lupei makes the same statement with a an interested third party who has to produce different wording: “The ideas that underlie these evidence that it doesn’t. It is as if a cop would stop elements are not original, and are based on the you in the street and ask you prove that the trousers official MICROSOFT documentation (MSDN), on you’re wearing are yours. If you can’t prove that, you other Internet examples, as well as on present day will be left without them. knowledge”. Petty officer Florin Mica, the policeman who RSC Director, Elisei Craciun, declares at his had instrumented the case of Prosecutor Bulgaru, turn that the two identical elements of the two gets hold of all statements by the defendants, and applications, the original and the copy, were not takes to add mind blowing conclusions with respect
66 MICROSOFT THE GUARDIAN ANGEL - UM 0666 67 to intellectual property, exceeds his prerogatives, his his capacity of an expert with the Body of Public professional training and even his intelligence. He Experts. claims that OMNIS GROUP had received the awards We consequently produce further extra from MICROSOFT “for the best use of public judiciary evidence on the subject. Prosecutor technologies over the Internet, and not as their own Bulgaru refuses to take this in consideration. This is original intellectual creation”. It is as if MICROSOFT why, at the proposal of police officer Florin Minca would have called competitors to use their programs, she provides not to pursue legal action in the case of and the one who managed to be the best with this the two defendants. As a motivation, she copies all got the highest award. This is all the police officer statements by those involved from the RSC side and could think of, even though he is paid from public adds her own notes on the case in order to sound funds to seek for justice. credible. We will consequently show the range of the Another illogicality by Prosecutor Bulgaru was silliness launched by petty officer Minca and, most that” the registration with the ORDA in the Record for probably, gulped Prosecutor Bulgaru In the educated IT programs is done by presenting the deed for opinion of the clever policeman and his company, copyright or a statement on own responsibility of the the inventor of the multiplication chart would be the legal representative. In the case of SC OMNIS SRL, beholder of all mathematic theories in the world, and this statement does not grant the bearer the capacity he who invented hot water would be the rightful as a copyright owner, as this is a notification to the owner of steam engines, based on that principle. The public for intellectual property, as provided by Law descendants of Alexander Fleming, inventor of 8/1996, revised and extended”, Bulgaru claims. In penicillin, could impose his ownership on all other words, the prosecutor provides according to medicines containing this substance, and examples her own whim – with no expertise in copyright, and can go on. tells who is an inventor in Romania and who is not.
MICROSOFT, Protector of the Scam
Ionut Lopatan, a technical director and founding member of MICROSOFT Romania steps in later on. He claims that ISIS net was copied from MICROSOFT’s Navision, and that up to then the IT giant wasn’t developing a product at least remotely similar to ISIS net. At the claim of OMNIS GROUP, Lopatan declines his capacity of a partner expert alongside Stancescu. Shortly after, he also gives up
CHAPTER VI
Magistrates Failing the Test of Logic and Commonsense
The silly theory advanced by Nicoleta Bulgaru needed to become legitimate, so that the First Prosecutor with the Prosecutor’s Office at the Bucharest Tribunal, Dragos Nestor (another controversial character within the body of magistrates) had to give freeway. And this is where he gets: “all applications in litigation are using public MICROSOFT technologies on the Internet and are therefore not original. The SC OMNIS GROUP SRL applications are notorious and do not represent a novelty in the field”, as claimed. This makes him fail the test of logics, as well. How can justice be made in this country, with such “brilliant” minds? It is as if I wrote a book that revolutionizes Europe and was not its owner, as it is written in the Roman alphabet? Yet the silly and inept statements of those in charge in this ill fated country do not stop here, unfortunately. On May 21 st 2008, Judge Viorica Costiniu, with the Bucharest Court of Appeal, finds that “the content of the expertise (written by expert Stancescu) denies findings of ORDA specialists
70 MICROSOFT THE GUARDIAN ANGEL - UM 0666 71 regarding the significant occurrence of similarities. administrated by the ORDA, by a statement in The similarities could allegedly derive from using personal name with regard to the author of the MICROSOFT NET public technologies”. relevant program means going public as referred to It is yet another person who passes judgment by article 4 paragraph 1 of the Law No. 8/1996 on on issues of intellectual property, with no copyright and connected, with ulterior alterations and competence or expertise in the field. It might be that additions, as per previous statement, of 16.05.2006”. her husband, Florin Costiniu was more competent to do so, in his capacity as a judge at the Cassation In the previous volume, in the appendixes of and Justice Court, and head of the department in the book, we have selected the conclusions of other charge with copyright. This is if he were not involved expertise, including those of the ORDA, which have up to his neck in the corruption scandal that haunts concluded that 5,000 code lines, essential to the Cătălin Voicu’s network, an individual who is functioning of HIPOCRATE, a source of millions of presently behind bars. Judge Costiniu only lasted for Euros for the RSC, have been carbon copied from two days in this position, which is before his ISIS net. Nevertheless, our magistrates believe that colleagues made him redundant, and pursued legal white is black. Is it of lesser importance that on July action against him. 23 rd 2008, the ORDA expertise confirmed that the ISIS net application was original? The decisions of Judge Costiniu, Better than ORDA Experts courts had already been taken. And the issue concerning the originality of the program was only a In conclusion, it is as if OMNIS GROUP were scam for distracting attention from the deed of piracy the defendant and not the plaintiff. Viorica Costiniu committed by the company, shepherd by Sebastian reaches the conclusion that “the mere registration of Vlădescu . ISIS and ISIS net applications does not grant the plaintiff the right to intellectual property and legal In conclusion I am bringing to the attention of protection, as they had not produced evidence that the reader one single fact on the ongoing discussion the applications in discussion are not resulted from as referred to by clever Nicoleta Bulgaru: inventive activities and from an own intellectual process, while making them known to the public”. SC OMNIS GROUP SRL has claimed the theft On May 18 th 2006, ORDA the only of intellectual property for the applications by Government institution providing on intellectual and previous employees, so that they wouldn’t lose well connected rights in Romania offers another point of trained programmers and block the activity of a view, which magistrates will inexplicably ignore. competing company, i.e. SC RSC SRL.
We state that the registration of a computer And I would not have stopped on these words if program at the Register for Computer Programs, Madam Prosecutor hadn’t insulted my intelligence.
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Săracu and Lupei had been co opted by the owner of the corrupt system that is eating this country and of OMNIS GROUP from university and had been their poor people from the inside. The reader might trained by professionals. So how where they such rightfully ask what these people have to do with the good programmers, after only one year of training? If former Securitate and nomenclature, but mainly with it had been about boxing, things would have been the Securitate type oligarchy instated in Post 1989 different. If you are a strong fist fighter you can Romania. Connections are circumstantial. So defeat your teacher. But in the situation at hand it is circumstantial that they don’t poke into the eye of about brains and the use of it. This cannot be done someone who would look into the matter with a with fists, or overnight, even if Madam Bulgaru thinks certain attention? It is not that the OMNIS GROUP differently. owner hadn’t filed complaints with every relevant On the other hand, as I am a pacifist, I authority as a victim of software piracy. Yet these understand all those who have messed up – at the claims have had no impact, and were “solved” urge of benevolent persons like Cătălin Voicu – and domestically, by relatives, friends or business are now surprised for having got a stain. They could partners of those concerned. not have judged this case on grounds of their conscience and legality, because they are not Attorney John A. Bingham, Special Judge, masters of their own fate. It may be that they have Quoted in the Conspirators Trial, Washington, given in to compromise with certain secret services, 1865 USA: to get higher in office and still owe them for that. Or maybe they have transgressed their level of A conspiracy is seldom, if ever, proved by competence, according to the Peter Principle. In both positive testimony, when a major crime is on the cases they have to cover up their actions, at least verge of being committed again by a group of the illegitimate ones, to prevent them from going individuals. They do not act in the open, but under down. This is why they are so closely united, and cover, secretly. Their aim is known only by those supportive of one another, while they don’t even who enter this system. Excepting the case when one suspect that they are merely puppets in the hands of of the conspirators betrays his fellowmen and offers professional puppeteers. I almost feel sorry for them, proof against them. Their guilt can only be proved at the thought that at a certain point they will have to on grounds of circumstantial evidence. In such give explanations. situations, probation experts can only say that circumstantial evidences are more compelling * than material ones . A witness can grant mistaken interpretations for facts or can commit perjury, Next to the numerous puppets, more or less evidence can be counterfeited, but circumstances involved in the intelligence theft in this book, several cannot deceive . characters stick up as puppeteers and beneficiaries
CHAPTER VII
For the reasons given so far, I consider it necessary to continue this second volume of the trilogy started with "Microsoft – The Guardian Angel" with a review of recently (or not exactly) gone realities. These are realities which have marked and which still deeply mark generations of Romanians while Westerners have remained indifferent to them. I apologize to the reader who is already acquainted with what will follow and, in that case, I kindly ask him/her to move to the next chapters. My purpose was not at all to bore you, but to simply bring into discussion facts, acts and persons that certain people do not know almost anything about. So that was for reminders, because scripta manent , as it is well known.
Reality on the Edge
On June 22, 1941, Romania entered the Second World War with Germany, to recover its territories annexed by the USSR, namely Bessarabia and Bukovina. Our army units fought under the orders of the German general command in Crimea, Caucasus, Cotul Donului, Kalmykian steppe and Stalingrad. In early 1943, the total losses of the Romanians troops amounted to 182.441 (16.566
76 MICROSOFT THE GUARDIAN ANGEL - UM 0666 77 killed, 67.182 wounded and 98.692 missing). collecting both retirement pension and salary from Decimated, armies 3 and 4 were sent home for the State budget. rehabilitation, only seven Romanian divisions The main role of the division, along with a remaining on the Eastern front, at the bridgehead in smaller scaled one called "Horia, Clo ca and Kuban, from where they withdrew to Crimea. Cri an”, was propagandistic. The two divisions were On August 23, 1944, Romania turned to the part of the Soviet military system, later fully side of the Russian giant and the other fascist forces. contributing to the introduction of communism into In this new position Romania fought for 260 days, the Romanian Army. First Commander of the "Tudor until May 12, 1945, when the Russians ordered our Vladimirescu" Division was Colonel Nicolae troops to return home. In the same year, on May 9, Cambrea, having Chief of the General Staff Lt. Col. Berlin had fallen and the German army had Iacob Teclu and political activist Col. Mircea Haupt surrendered, but after conquering the Tatra as his deputies. Mountains in the former Czechoslovakia, the If the "Tudor Vladimirescu" Division fought Romanian soldiers were forbidden to continue the alongside the Russians up to the Tatra Mountains, offensive side by side with the allies so as not to "Horia, Clo ca and Cri an" had solely a claim to sit at the winners` table. propagandistic role and did not participate in any battle. The commander of the aforementioned Russification of the Romanian Army division was Gen. Mihail Lascăr, assisted by his political deputy Valter Roman (born Ernö Neuländer), On October 15, 1943, by order of Iosif Petre Roman's father, first Prime Minister of the Visarionovici Stalin, the “Tudor Vladimirescu” Romanian Government after December 1989. Division was created in the USSR and it consisted of Romanian prisoners of war who had chosen to take * side of the enemy and among whom many Russian spies were infiltrated. Note that, in wartime, to ally Immediately after 1944, mainly starting with the with the enemy was the equivalent of a crime of high political system imposed by Dr. Petru Groza treason and it was punishable by death after (December 1, 1946 to December 29, 1947), the summary judgments. Among the officers there was communists introduced in Romania the Bolshevik also Arkadie Nesterov, Victor Nesterov's father, who system imported from Russia. But as each state has would become high officer within the Romanian its own peculiarities, it has been adapted over time Police and investigate Drago Ri canu in relation to depending on the requirements and interests of its his dispute with SC RSC SRL. Victor Nesterov leaders. First, the Secret Police (Securitate) was retired in 2006 and became one of the heads of founded as a repression body against the elements Bucharest District 1 Community Police, thus “hostile” to the new communist regime. This
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Securitate became one of the most feared political by the State Security and imprisoned in Doftana, police structures in the entire Communist Bloc. Văcăre ti and Caransebe prisons for 16 years. The State Security Council (CSS) was part of During the time served in prison he became the Ministry of Interior, as was the General acquainted with future communist leaders such as Inspectorate of the Militia, the Directorate General of Gheorghe Gheorgiu Dej, Teohari Georgescu and Prisons, the Information and Documentation Centre Iosif Chi inevschi. and the State Archives Department. To liquidate any After 1944, Pantiu a married Ana Toma (born elements "hostile" to the regime, which were adverse Ana Grossman), Ana Pauker`s secretary, who would or provocative in the opinion of the new communist later become Mrs. Pârvulescu after marrying leaders, they needed reliable staff, new people to Constantin Pârvulescu, the opponent of Nicolae carry out political orders without any protests. Ceau escu in November 1979, who challenged his Consequently, the Secret Police elite thus created re election to the office of Secretary General of the and part of it resisting until after the year of grace Romanian Communist Party (PCR). 1989 has become the most feared state structure According to Wikipedia encyclopedia, between for which terror, torture and murder were 1945 1948, Pantiu a was Head of the party`s commonplace notions on the agenda. Household, deputy of INU (Foreign Intelligence For remembrance, I will mention some “heavy” Directorate of the NKVD) residence security matters names of those sad times. and one of the executors of the crimes ordered by the Romanian communists. On August 30, 1948, for Pantiu a, the Assassin Buried with Military his outstanding merits, he was promoted to Honors Lieutenant General and became Director of DGSP (General Directorate of Security of the People) and Gheorghe Pintilie a.k.a. Pantiu a (born in MAI deputy. Alexandru Nicolschi, Piotr Goncearuk Tiraspol under the name Timofei Bodnarenko), and Vladimir Mazuru were his deputies. Retired on Securitate General held responsible for the arrest, demand (they say) in 1963, he could not stand apart deportation, imprisonment and murder of from the party, often attending meetings of approximately 400.000 people. neighborhood and district organizations in As a teenager he fought in the Red Army during Bucharest. At the plenum of the Communist Party in the Civil War (1918 1923), after which he was 1968, when Ceau escu posthumously rehabilitated recruited by the NKVD (Narodnâi Komissariat the communist leader LucreŃiu Pătră canu, Pantiu a Vnutrennih Del People's Commissariat for Internal was expelled from the party. Investigated by the Affairs) and trained in espionage and sabotage Secret Police, he stated that he had committed some against the Romanian authorities. During his first of the crimes out of conviction, others out of respect mission in Romania in 1928, while trying to organize for the discipline of the party. In 1971, Nicolae a sabotage and espionage network, he was arrested Ceau escu rehabilitated Timofei Bodnarenko, a.k.a.
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Pantiu a, by awarding him the 2nd Class “Tudor captain and decorated with "Steaua Republicii Vladimirescu” Order. On the same occasion, his wife Populare Române" (“The Star of the Romanian Ana Toma received the “Hero of Socialist Labor” People's Republic”) on account of the murders distinction. The General died in August 1985 and committed against the anti communist resistance was buried with military honors performed by the groups in the mountains. In 1958 he was sent to the Romanian Army`s fanfare. USSR for specialization at the Marxist Leninist University where he did not learn well even Russian, Ple iŃă, the Secret Police Brute let alone the communist teachings that were taught there. Nicolae Ple iŃă, Secret Police General and During 1961 1967 he was a Securitate Head of the Foreign Intelligence, was one of the colonel, commander on five counties in the western most fierce, sadistic, cynical and tough officers of part of the country and between 1964 and 1968 he this structure, who became known during the bloody attended the Faculty of History within Babe Bolyai suppression of the armed resistance in the University in Cluj. Despite this "spectrum", Ple iŃă mountains. He led the investigation of persecution remained to his death the same semi illiterate as he against Paul Goma and those who joined his appeal was as a carpenter, failing to properly assimilate on human rights in the spring of 1977. He was also even the Romanian language. deeply involved in the attacks against the Romanian In 1967 he was appointed Head of the department of "Europa Liberă" (Radio Free Europe) Directorate for Security and Guard within the Ministry and collaborated with left wing international terrorist of Interior, he was then promoted to Major General, organizations. Up until his death at the age of 80, on and five years later he became Head of Department I September 29, 2009, in a Romanian Intelligence of the Domestic Intelligence Department. Service sanatorium, this monster had been flaunting Between September 1978 and April 1980 he his cruel assassin past by defying his victims through was the head of the Ministry of Interior`s military numerous appearances on television and in the print school for active officers located in Băneasa, being media. elected alternate member of the Romanian Carpenter in a timber factory in Curtea de Communist Party`s CC (Central Committee). Arges, Ple iŃă enrolled into the Romanian Thereafter, for four years, this sinister person Communist Party in 1947, thus becoming president was First Deputy of the Minister of Interior and head of the forestry union. A year later he was promoted of the Securitate`s CIE (Foreign Intelligence Center). to the Union of Communist Youth (UTC) county On November 26, 1984 he was dismissed from the organization. Now a sergeant, the communist above mentioned offices and appointed commander torturer was recruited by the Regional Directorate of of the training school for reserve officers (to be read: the Secret Police in Pite ti. After several transfers in undercover officers) of the Ministry of Interior from various hot spots of the country, he was promoted to Grădi te, Ilfov county. On February 19, 1990, two
82 MICROSOFT THE GUARDIAN ANGEL - UM 0666 83 star ranked Lieutenant General Nicolae Ple iŃă By way of gratitude for his work in the service of retired during the first Iliescu regime. the Secret Police and against the Romanian people, Ple iŃă spent his last three months of life in a Glorious Past as Secret Police Agent sanatorium belonging to the SRI. He has not been forgotten by his former subordinates from Cluj In 1997, General Ple iŃă was indicted for Napoca who sent a funeral wreath to his memorial complicity in the bomb attack of February 21, 1981, service. The same approach came from a SRI unit on Radio Free Europe in Munich, when instead of and then personally from another member of the blowing up the station`s Romanian department the Secret Police enrolled in NKVD KGB (and Czechoslovak one exploded. The attack had been exposed), General Iulian Vlad, the last Head of the staged with international terrorist Carlos a.k.a. "the Secret Police before the events in 1989, deeply Jackal" (Ilich Ramirez Sánchez), who had previously involved in the bloody suppression of demonstrators visited our country and received a few million dollars in Timi oara and sentenced to 25 years in prison in return for seven murder orders, including the one from which he served in fact only 4 (four) years. targeting Securitate General Ion Mihai Pacepa, fled to the U.S.. Carlos "the Jackal" was picked up in Butcher in the Ministry of Interior Prague by Secret Police officers Ion Diaconescu and Sergiu Nica, who also mediated his subsequent George Enoiu, Securitate colonel, specialized meetings with generals Vlad, Postelnicu, Ple iŃă and in the most unimaginable torture methods such as activist Ghizela Vass. isolation, starvation and deprivation of rest, sole and Later on, in 2009, we will find Ion Diaconescu in testicle beating, beatings with sand bags, the position of deputy to Dan Nica, Minister of the electrocution, etc. He was the principal investigator Interior, who, together with PSD mayor Marian of the students arrested during 1956 1957 and who Vanghelie, would support Senator Cătălin Voicu to found great amusement in hitting their heads with his become Minister of the Interior, based on the latter's fists and feet until they admitted to doing what was promise to "restore the network at the level of held against them. During investigations, he used to Justice" on the whole territory. wrap a sheet around him so as not to get stained by Under political and Securitate oligarchy blood. Despite the atrocities that he had committed, pressures, the Romanian military courts stopped the Enoiu was kept within the Secret Police until investigation against General Ple iŃă in 2000, December 1989. allegedly for lack of evidence; it was resumed four Coming from the same county as Nicolae years later by a civil court. In March 2009, six Ple iŃă, Arge , Enoiu was Head of the Penal months before his death, the notorious communist Investigation Department of MAI, within the murderer had the satisfaction to be released from Securitate`s VIIIth Directorate and was called criminal prosecution. "Butcher of the Interior” because of his cruelty. He
84 MICROSOFT THE GUARDIAN ANGEL - UM 0666 85 was involved in the investigation of LucreŃiu important factors in the legendary frame ups which Pătră canu, the communist leader sentenced to compromised the traditional political parties. After death and executed in April 1954. His investigations becoming colonel, he was later promoted to become also targeted, among others, Ana Pauker, Teohari deputy to General Serghei Nicolau (born Serghei Georgescu or Vasile Luca, who had fallen from the Nokonov), also a Russian spy, Director General of grace of Gheorghe Gheorghiu Dej since 1952, and the Secret Police during its first years of existence. later on Paul Goma, Alexandru Ivasiuc and many On other executioners of the Romanian People others. see Annex 6.
Paul Goma:
Enoiu Gheorghe captain in 1956, when dealing with Legionnaires and students. So called "Butcher" – there were many butchers in the Securitate. He also beat me (piece of cake as compared to what Petri or, Ivasiuc, Cocioran, Costică Iliescu had to endure); he is guilty of student tefan Negrea`s death; he hit him his head, only the head until he went mad he hanged himself in Gherla.
In his duplicity and cowardice, and despite the testimony of his victims, Gheorghe Enoiu has never admitted to using such methods on the investigated persons.
Petea, Champion of Political Frame ups
Petre Petrescu (born Piotr Goncearuk), a.k.a. Petea, was arrested for being a Russian spy and shared the same prison cell with Emil Bodnăra in Caransebe , where he became head of the hard labor. Close acquaintance of Gheorghiu Dej, under NKVD coordination, Goncearuk was one of the most
CHAPTER VIII
Officers of Death
As you can notice, there have been only a few or no references at all to the party activists or to the political leaders of the country because our goal is not to condemn communism, but to show who made possible this social plague. Or rather, to show who has manipulated the party activists and for what purposes. Former Securitate Generals, most of them semi illiterate and utterly uneducated, have trained reliable people who could later step in their place. Among those are Gabi Naghi, Florin Calapod, a.k.a. Cristescu, Alexandru Grumaz, and the SRI Director`s deputies, generals Ovidiu Soare or Vasile Ioan Lupu – protectors of the Prahova mafia within this institution, prosecuted but never convicted , col. Corneliu Păltânea head of the Prahova mafia within SRI, Admiral Emil Dumitrescu a.k.a. Cico presidential advisor during Ion Iliescu`s regime, superintendent Nicolae Berechet, Ionel Marin , SRI General, Cătălin Voicu senator and Major General of the Romanian Army, etc.
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General Caraman Decorated by the NKVD On January 18, 1990, he was reactivated by Ion Iliescu, the indisputable leader of the FSN Securitate General Mihai Caraman was a (National Salvation Front), who appointed him special case in the Securitate oligarchy because his Deputy Minister of National Defense and commander results in the counterintelligence cannot be of the Foreign Intelligence Center and which, on compared to those of his colleagues, given the December 13, 1990 became SIE (Foreign distinction received from the feared Russian secret Intelligence Service). service, NKVD. In 1992, Manfred Wörner, NATO Secretary Caraman was chief of the Romanian General, announced crypto communist Ion Iliescu intelligence residence in Paris (1958 1968) and that he would not go through with his planned visit to coordinated the network which bore his name. Their Bucharest as long as Gen. Mihai Caraman was greatest success was to infiltrate into the NATO Head of SIE, on grounds that he had spied against Headquarters and to steal top secret documents of NATO, which was incompatible with his position of the North Atlantic Alliance. The damages caused to Head of the Intelligence Services of a country NATO were significantly increased by the fact that aspiring to become member of the North Atlantic those documents also came into possession of the Alliance. In April the same year, Iliescu had no KGB (Komitet Gosudarstvennoj Bezopasnosti choice but to get rid of this controversial character Committee for State Security). This was also the and approve his "application" for retirement, not reason why the General was the only Romanian before, however, promoting him to General Colonel officer of the communist Securitate decorated by the who would benefit of an "outrageous" retirement KGB for exceptional results against NATO. pension. More information about this figure denigrated by some and loved by others can be found in the * “French Dictionary of Espionage History and Techniques" published in 1998. I insist on the fact that the most important In 1968, some of the informers recruited by mission of all Secret Police agents in the communist Caraman were compromised and so he was era was to annihilate any "hostile" and "opponent" summoned back to Romania, where he held several elements which would have displeased the political positions in the intelligence structures, up to Head of power of the RPR (Romanian People's Republic), the Counterintelligence Division of DIE (Foreign later RSR (Socialist Republic of Romania). Intelligence Department). After the so called treason Additionally, the members of the Secret Police of General Ion Mihai Pacepa, Caraman was organized on principles of caste took care of their removed from any position of responsibility; in 1979 own welfare while the population was starving, living he was retired and put in reserve. under terror and in cold, hunger and deficiencies of all kind. After December 1989 the situation has
90 MICROSOFT THE GUARDIAN ANGEL - UM 0666 91 changed, but we will refer to this aspect later on. For when he got drunk. He then told us how, while being now, let us observe how the Securitate was a young Komsomol, he was pursuing kulaks and structured. priests. He was told that the priests held a meeting in a hut in the steppe. He then rushed there – it was in SMERSH, the Midwife of the Securitate Ukraine and I do not know whether he summoned them or not to come out, but he covered the hut with The Secret Police (Securitate) was established earth and killed them by choking. We were appalled. by a division of the NKVD called SMERSH, the first This is what he was capable of. Romanian name of this communist apparatus of Stalinist terror being the Mobile Squad. Alexandru In 1951, the Securitate was separated from the Nicolschi was its Head until 1948 when, by Decree Ministry of Interior and was incorporated into the no. 221 of the Great National Assembly of RPR the Ministry of State Security, but after four years the State Security Council was established. Its first whole newly established ministry was incorporated director was Pantiu a (Gheoghe Pintilie, a.k.a. into the Ministry of Interior. A year later, the Ministry Timofei Bodnarenko), with Minister rank in the of Interior was reorganized into the Security Council of Ministers, his deputies being generals Department and the Interior Department. Nicolschi and Vladimir Mazuru all three Soviet Despite the fact that, until 1956, the Securitate undercover officers of the NKVD. officers had no prerogatives over the political The role of the Securitate, which replaced the prisoners held in labor camps and prisons, they were General Directorate of the Security Police, was "to actively involved in their repression, while also defend the democratic achievements and to ensure supervising, for information purposes, the Ministry of the security of the Romanian People's Republic Interior`s troops who were fulfilling their duties in the against the maneuvers of the internal and external same establishments. The Secret Police officers enemies". The Secret Police bodies were "the only were also the main source of information for the ones invested with the power to prosecute crimes restraint of the "enemies of the people" in prisons that endanger the democratic regime and the and extermination camps by using forced labor. security of the people." In 1958, the personnel of the Security Forces For a more detailed image on the amounted to 5.633 active officers, 4.108 re psychological, moral and human profile of Gheorghe employed sergeants, 1.416 civilian employees and Pintilie, the first director of the Securitate, I present 46.028 conscripts. you the opinion of Tatiana Brătescu, daughter of Ana In the fall of communism, the Securitate had Pauker, about this odious communist torturer: 15.312 employees as follows:
Pantiu a was a sinister character. To what extent, I would once have the occasion to find out
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Division I Foreign Intelligence 114 Special Unit “S” (detecting hidden writings and employees (98 officers); graphics expertise) 388 employees; Division II Counterintelligence 167 Special Unit "R" (radio broadcasts and employees (150 officers); counterintelligence) 499 employees; Division III Counterintelligence 242 Secret Mail Transport Service 77 employees; employees (213 officers); Training School for Securitate officers Division IV Military Counterintelligence – Grădi tea 170 employees; 1.133 employees (926 officers); Training Center for Securitate officers Bran Division V (MU 0666) Security and Guard – 30 employees; 486 employees (306 officers) the most feared and Special Training Center 25 employees; hated Securitate officers, "Praetorians" of Security of Bucharest Municipality and County Ceau escu, ready to defend the beloved leader at Inspectorates – 6.059 employees (4.017 officers), the cost of their own lives; taken over in 1989 by the new Police and turned into Division VI Criminal investigations 72 secret agents of MU 0215, the famous "Two and a employees (36 officers); quarter”( "Doi i un sfert"); Special Anti Terrorist Combat Unit 795 Commandment of Security Forces – 1.387 employees; officers, 136 warrant officers, 926 non commissioned Independent Service for Protection of State officers, 535 civilian employees and 20.288 Secrets 57 employees; conscripts; Special Unit “F” (stakeout) 781 employees; Political Council of DSS 13 officers; Independent Service for Foreign Trade 45 Foreign Intelligence Center – 1.059 employees; employees, merged with MU 0195 – Foreign Information and Documentation Centre 272 Counterintelligence 451 employees and Service "D" employees; (disinformation) 22 employees; Independent Service Legal Secretariat 29 MU 0525 within the Foreign Intelligence employees; Center 475 employees; Independent Service Educators and Military " Dunărea" Foreign Trade Enterprise 137 Organization 74 employees; employees; Commandment for Technical Operations and IRVMR (former 3R – Recovery Recondition Communications 42 employees; Reuse) known as "Bottles and jars”, undercover Special Unit "T" (Tonola Telephone unit Division I of the Securitate (chief financial officer Monitoring and Video Surveillance) 477 employees Sebastian Vlădescu); known as "The Ear and the Eardrum”; RATMIL (former Autonomous Administration Special Unit “P” (special production and of Military Technics) specialized in arms trade with research) 465 employees; Africa and the Middle East (Director Eugen
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The Odious MU 0666
Division V MU 0666 (Security and Guard) was the most despicable of all these Securitate bodies, its mission being to ensure the security and protection of the Romanian and foreign dignitaries visiting our country and also of their families, and especially to ensure the security of the Ceau escu couple. Yet the officers in this structure could afford any kind of abuse, being superior to their fellow colleagues because of their position as "Praetorians" of the Ceau escus. Under the satanic mark of the beast, 666, the employees of this structure were better paid than their other fellow colleagues; they also fully enjoyed all the privileges of senior officials and had in their subordination the feared USLA combat unit a true symbol of terror for the Romanian population. On December 22, 1989 Division V had a staff of 484 people, except for the USLAs (Special Anti Terrorist Combat Unit), of which 306 officers, 14 warrant officers, 144 non commissioned officers and 20 civilian employees. Of this total, 341 members of the staff, suspected of terrorism, were arrested after the establishment of the new original democracy. Soon all of them were released without a single
96 MICROSOFT THE GUARDIAN ANGEL - UM 0666 97 charge brought against them. The last commander of Nicolae Ceau escu, legionarii Horia Sima and Zelea Division V was General Neagoe Marin and the last Codreanu and anarchist Max Goldstein. commander of the Special Anti Terrorist Combat Unit In addition to them there were many Russian – MU 0620 – was Colonel Gheorghe Ardeleanu spies "picked up" by the Security services and (born Moise Bulă). Once the Securitate has been subsequently infiltrated among the Romanian integrated into the Ministry of National Defense communists. Note that, at that time, the Communist Ardeleanu Bulă was appointed by Ion Iliescu vice Party had around 1.000 contributing members who president of the Higher Commission for Regulation were receiving sustained support from the USSR. and Structure within the Ministry of National Most of the Russian spies career officers spoke Defense. On February 5, 1991, the colonel was Romanian and were recruited from Transnistria, from retired and entitled to a retirement pension of senior the Republic of Moldova or from the Ukraine. officer and the beneficiary of a Revolution fighter Unfortunately, their Bolshevik experience was certificate, with all the rights deriving from Law decisive for Romania's dark future. And I will explain 42/1990. He died on June 15, 1993, poisoned with the reason why. insecticide in the hospital of tei town, Bihor county. In May 1990, Division V MU 0666 became Secret Police Funds for Crime. "Haiducu" SPP (Protection and Guard Service), under the Affair command of Major General Dumitru Iliescu. In 1982, the odious Nicolae Ple iŃă, Head of the I will conclude this chapter by making reference Foreign Intelligence Centre ordered Securitate officer to Annex 7, where the interested reader will discover Matei Pavel Haiducu (born Hirsch and son of a who were the Heads of the Secret Services from senior official in the Ministry of Interior during the 1924 up to today. '50s) to kill by poisoning dissidents Paul Goma and Virgil Tănase, who had taken refuge in France. The Securitate is not Dead. Securitate Changes illiterate General, who did not speak any foreign language and whose Romanian language skills were The political power during the interwar period only basic, ordered the assassinations out of and during World War II, up to August 1944, excessive zeal, to work himself into Nicolae imprisoned in Doftana a few communist leaders with Ceu escu`s favour, who had come to realize how Russian pay rolls and some legionary leaders who incompetent he was in his position. Haiducu did not conspired against the country. Among them most follow Ple iŃă`s orders and surrendered to the notable were: Gheorghe Gheorghiu Dej, Chivu French intelligence services. In his book published Stoica, Gheorghe Apostol, Emil Bodnăra , Ion two years later, "I refused to kill," he recounts the Gheorghe Maurer, tefan Fori , Tudor Carapancea, whole story with details.
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Tănase and Goma were hidden by the French visit to Romania, which he later canceled as a sign of secret services while the press sparked a scandal on protest against the "Haiducu" Affair and stated that the matter of their murder. It was a scandal that also our country was run by "a gang of assassins". reached Bucharest, to the great satisfaction of Ple iŃă's failure occurred a year after the General Ple iŃă. Haiducu returned home as if he unsuccessful attack against the Romanian would have done the job and, at Ple iŃă`s department of Radio Free Europe. suggestion, he was even decorated by Ceau escu. Three months passed, but the two dissidents` bodies Training Reliable Agents were still nowhere to be found, which roused the suspicion of the Romanian dictator. In the following I will present the methods the President Francois Mitterrand seemed to Secret Police was using before '89 in order to train suggest in an interview that Virgil Tănase`s wife its magistrates as well as other reliable agents in the would have some "connections" with the French school in Bran. I would like to mention that many of DST, at which point Ceau escu became even more those graduates still hold today important positions in suspicious. Everything culminated with Haiducu`s the State administration and that they have been and appearance on the French TV who stated that the they still are involved in the training of successors two opponents of the Romanian communist regime who would follow their vile careers, all for the best were still alive and that he had cooperated with the interest of the caste; and that, after December 1989, French secret services to save their lives. In addition all prosecutors trained in Securitate and other PCR to that, he exposed the relationship of the country's schools have been advanced in their careers. ambassador in Paris Dumitru Aninoiu and press The Secret Police used to draw up the attaché Ion Badea with the CIE. Thus, alike psychological portrait of the candidates, who were Bulgarian President Todor Jivkov, Ceau escu subsequently “informatively worked” for a long period appeared in the public eye as an "assassin of of time, often since their graduation. The basic dissidents". As a punishment, the dictator assigned conditions were their obsequiousness, the ability to Ple iŃă to the Securitate School in Grădi tea, still act only upon order and the possibility to control being there when the Revolution of December 1989 them by using blackmail. Their intellectual capacity broke out. This figure is the prototype of the brute counted for very little. Secret Police agent who has dedicated his entire life The young, prospective, undercover Secret only for his self interest and for the defense of Police agents or the devoted collaborators of the communism, thus ruining the prestige of our country Securitate have been recruited from all fields of for many years. activity under the promise of a rapid career Interesting to mention that, at that time, French development and various other privileges. They were President Mitterrand, whose campaign had been told that they would participate in training courses, sponsored by Nicolae Ceau escu, had a planned which would assure access to high career positions
100 MICROSOFT THE GUARDIAN ANGEL - UM 0666 101 while they were still young. Those were promises coming, and then I was too afraid to escape from the that could tempt any youngster decided to take on system. Now is the time that young people knew the world. Given the stakes, it counted less that they what really happened, how destinies have been would need to make some compromises and to carry crashed on order of Communist Party activists and out certain orders that they would receive. Secret Police agents. Once arrived at the School in Bran, and only In Bran, in cooperation with the Army, we did vaguely suspecting what all could be about, "the absolutely everything from firearms practice in a students" were astonished to find on their assigned shooting range to simulating terrorist captures. We beds training military uniforms and footwear which have been taught to use cameras, to install listening would perfectly fit their sizes. After that came some devices into telephone, radio or television devices. lectures on the reasons where and why they were People`s homes have been searched with warrants there, after which they signed the well known issued by prosecutors; and we were instructed to confidentiality commitments true pacts with the release warrants upon request of the Securitate, devil. even in situations where there were no proofs or As revealed in 2008 by former prosecutor when there was only framed evidence. Homes have Alexandru Pantea to Ondine GherguŃ, reporter from also been searched under the pretext of checking "România liberă" daily, the training consisted of the functionality of the telephone, radio or television making it a habit for the magistrates to arrest, devices. We have been instructed to conduct special investigate, to counterfeit false evidence and investigations by using blackmail, hallucinogenic sentence to heavy penalties or even to death the substances or torture. They were conducted by “undesirables” on Securitate orders and under the Militia and Secret Police officers or recidivist protection of the Communist Party bodies. They prisoners. Our teachers were prosecutors from the were often irradiated, drugged or hospitalized in General Prosecutor`s Office or Secret Police officers. psychiatric hospitals, where “multi qualified” doctors (many of them still holding their office and being schooled in Bran killed them. even professors – Ed.).
Alexandru Pantea ("România liberă" March I would add that some people`s destinies are 11, 2008): still being crashed, except that the former torturer Securitate agents have been replaced by new Secret It is high time I talked about the atrocities of the Police agents infiltrated in all secret services, in Securitate Comunist system because no prosecutor politics and in the civil society. Particularly interesting has done that before. Some of my former colleagues is the statement of President Traian Băsescu issued could accuse me for being a traitor because I have in 2008 and referring to the fact that one quarter of broken the vow upon enrollment into that school. the Romanian magistrates today has been at least Only that, back then I did not know what was Securitate collaborator. And no wonder, since all
102 MICROSOFT THE GUARDIAN ANGEL - UM 0666 103 graduates of Bran School have been promoted to continuation of those initiated by the Securitate different positions after 1989. Two such notorious officers in the early '80s. examples are Alexandru łuculeanu and Ilie Picioru , Of particular importance is the fact that, in who have reached leading positions within the spring 2008, CNSAS (National Council for the Study General Prosecutor`s Office, the latter even reaching of the former Securitate Archives) requested the as far as the Superior Council of Magistracy. Romanian Intelligence Service and MIRA (Ministry of As already mentioned, young university Interior and Administrative Reform) to nominate the graduates have been recruited from all domains to magistrates who have been "trained" in Secret Police become collaborators or undercover officers of the schools. And the services couldn`t care less ... Securitate. This was the only way in which The same approach was taken by the unscrupulous people could get access to high newspaper "România liberă", the answer received positions in certain economic sectors. Maybe it is not from the Romanian Intelligence Service being: "SRI a coincidence that characters such as Eugen does not provide such information”. Nicolăescu, Sebastian Vlădescu or Vasile Blaga As a conclusion, the Romanian Intelligence have reached such high positions, without excelling Service stubbornly refuses to lay the cards on the in either their profession, or in their political activities table in the service of the historical truth. Supposing of that time. they do that, prosecutors and other graduates (at One of the Securitate leaders is still holding least those of the School in Bran) could not be office today in the magistracy by being a judge in blackmailed anymore and thus they could refuse to Ploie ti. It is Adrian Petre Podea, former Securitate carry out the orders of the Securitate oligarchy. officer who "operatively worked” Drago Ri canu Interesting, eh? ... owner of OMNIS GROUP SRL between 1981 and 1983, up to his departure from the country. He has been also deeply involved in the protection of the Prahova usurers, along with Judge Dumitru Rebegea, at this time arrested for 29 days for taking bribe. But I am going to write about this character sometimes later on. In fact, the OMNIS Group owner was operatively monitored by three secret services of the communist state: MU 0666, MU0625 and the F21 Service, subordinated to DIE. Fact that could subsequently lead us to believe that the software theft, the property theft and the two attempts on his life are not pure coincidences, these actions being a
CHAPTER X
Voicu Network on Justice
Inside the Securitate there were "young wolves" who, taking advantage of the events of December 1989, have created their own networks by having in the shadow professional puppeteers, once their mentors and tutors. It is the notable case, at least at European level, of the mafia or Securitate like network – whatever you would like to call it created by the Social Democratic Party senator Cătălin Voicu, currently behind bars and investigated for serious acts of corruption. In December 1989, Voicu was a recently appointed lieutenant working in the Transmission Command in the Romanian Land Forces as revealed in "România liberă" in March 2010 in the 3rd Mechanized Regiment, led by Captain Ionel Marin and Deputies Dumitru Venicius Iliescu and Gabriel Naghi. On December 21, this unit`s Armored Personnel Carriers (“TABs”) have actively participated in the murder of 49 innocent people and injured 599 demonstrators in downtown Bucharest. The next day, following Minister of Defense Vasile Milea`s "suicide", the armored carriers unit sided with Ion Iliescu, just called from home to grab the reins of the new democracy.
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The new political power emerged in its shadow (The thorough MU 0666 Archives used to was transported by the same TABs from the CC blackmail, defame, fraud, murder, etc. are now in (Central Committee) of PCR to the TVR (Romanian SPP custody. Not one file has been handed to Television), the Ministry of Defence and back. For CNSAS, President Traian Băsescu being promoting the "communism with a human face", misinformed and led to believe that all of them are in Dumitru Iliescu later became Director of the SPP CNSAS custody.) (Protection and Guard Service) and then adviser to After 1997, the network has lost the protection CSAT (the Supreme Defence Service of the of President Ion Iliescu, who had lost the elections in country); meanwhile Naghi was also promoted SPP favor of Emil Constantinescu. It was the time when, chief. Everyone, including Voicu, was made after being put in reserve, Cătălin Voicu, Dumitru "exceptional" general under the oath to defend at the Iliescu and Gabriel Naghi set up a Protection and cost of his own life the second echelon communists Security Company. In 2000, on his third return to who had seized the political power. Cotroceni, Iliescu reactivated all three of them. The day after the execution of the Ceau escu Dumitru Iliescu and Voicu were appointed couple, notorious Communist Ion Iliescu did not presidential advisers and Naghi – SPP Director. This forget about Cătălin Voicu, who had previously means that all classified documents intended for the insured his protection. Thus, he appointed him Head Head of State first passed through the filter of the of the General Prosecutor's Office, his mission being first two, while others, those of particular importance, to protect the newly appointed Attorney General, were held by the third. Gheorghe Robu. Voicu called a meeting with the With the direct support of Mayor Marian chief prosecutors, drew out a gun and made a clear Vanghelie and the parental blessing of Ion Iliescu, statement to his audience: he and the Army were the Cătălin Voicu was launched in politics and ever since new leaders of the General Prosecutor`s Office and 2004 he has been a member in the Romanian whoever opposed them would be shot to death. Parliament. After a while during which he strengthened According to the issue of March 22, 2010 of some relationships, Voicu was assigned to SPP, as "România liberă", heavy names in the Romanian subordinate of the same Dumitru Iliescu. His arms Justice were part of Voicu`s network, a ministry stretched out more even more during the time when which, in the first volume of this trilogy, I dared to PSD Petre Ninosu was Minister of Justice. categorize as being one of the most corrupt Investigators believe that during that time he met institutions in our country: Judge Costiniu Florin, who was state secretary at the Ministry of Justice, today judge of the High Court of According to transcripts, the prosecutors who Cassation and Justice, Civil Division chief in charge were close to Voicu were: of intellectual property rights.
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Pantelimon Bo tină from the Military Cătălin Voicu: If I am appointed to the Ministry Prosecutor`s Office, Marian Capotă, Head of Special of the Interior, you will have the Romanian Investigations Unit of the General Prosecutor`s Prosecutor`s Office, all of the Justice and the entire Office, Adrian Miclescu, former PNA (National Court in the palm of your hands. (...) in three years I Anticorruption Directorate – Ed.) deputy and can create the entire Romanian network. (...) Sir, I collaborator of the Securitate, and prosecutors Vasile have already told you that in December 1989 I was Drăghici i Ioan OŃel, Miclescu`s subordinates. appointed adjutant to the first Attorney General of Among judges, Voicu was in a close relationship with democratic Romania, when nobody listened to Florin Costiniu, former Secretary of State for Justice anybody’s orders and it worked during '89, '90 all during Ion Iliescu`s first presidential term, currently the time and all my relations, and I developed Head of Department at the High Court of Cassation together with them. and Justice (ÎCCJ) and Cristian Jipa, a Criminal Division Judge within ÎCCJ. As for the Police, it all In conclusion to everything we have mentioned went smoothly as they could be more easily so far, we can claim that we are dealing with former blackmailed. According to the transcripts, former Securitate agents infiltrated into the new state retired Generals Constantin Matei and Marcel Isac, structures, with new Securitate agents trained by protagonists of many press scandals while they were them and interest groups created by them for both still active, appear to be actors in an influence material and political influence reasons. What has peddling case. General Matei became a “star" also escaped Cătălin Voicu`s sight is that absolute power due his son, chief of the police elite troops, arrested was not favored by the Russian spies who created for illegally holding people against their will and and controlled the Secret Police, shaping it in their protection fee extortion. General Isac beneficiary of own image. Bancorex loans with state subsidized interest worked for a certain time in the Criminal Napoleon: All power corrupts. Investigations and, after Ion Iliescu`s return to power, he was reactivated in the Romanian Intelligence Winston Churchill: Power corrupts and absolute Services. power corrupts absolutely.
How far the tentacles of the Voicu network have This might have been the reason why the stretched, aiming at no less than the portfolio of the Secret Police agents made it so that Cătălin Voicu, Ministry of the Interior, the reader can easily who had become too greedy and reckless, understand from the interception made by DNA endangering the interests of their caste, would break prosecutors of a discussion between Cătălin Voicu his neck. and Senator Alexandru Mazăre:
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Ovidiu Soare Network on the Romanian pursue to commit perjury and association to commit Intelligence Services crimes". “Emil Cico Dumitrescu, former state adviser to Retired General Ovidiu Soare, SRI Deputy the Presidential Administration (during Ion Iliescu's Director, Head of the Inspectorate for the Protection mandate – Ed.) was charged with influence of the Constitution and Economic Security has peddling". created its own network, this time inside a secret The first two were retained in custody for 29 service. Before that he was senior officer within days, but soon they were released by the nine Ceau escu`s Securitate Direction V (MU 0666) and judges of the High Court of Cassation and Justice. during the events of December '89 he went hiding Up to this moment, four years since committing inside Bucharest Militia District 1 so as not to be those crimes, they have not received any conviction. recognized and lynched by the people in the streets. It was also under General Ovidiu Soare`s General Soare has been indicted by the DNA coordination that the mafia network of the Head of (National Anticorruption Directorate) prosecutors SRI Prahova, Colonel Corneliu Păltânea, has together with col. Gheorghe Dumitrache and former activated for years. Another one who benefited from presidential adviser Emil Dumitrescu a.k.a. Cico. He that situation was Colonel Daniel Bucur, who was was accused of "taking bribe, incitement without dealing petroleum, construction materials and execution of criminal fraud, incitement to intellectual recruitment of SRI undercover officers. The two were forgery, complicity to malicious use of SRI property also put under preventive arrest, charged and then with purpose contrary to the institutions regulations, released by the courts. They have not received any forgery in deeds by private signature, association to conviction, the dust of oblivion covering their commit crimes, the omission to inform the judicial investigation files. authorities with regards to the Romanian national security on the normative version and providing Prahova Network secret or confidential information by any means, outside the legal framework”. Leader on Prahova County is the small network Reserve Colonel Gheorghe Dumitrache (in law of judge Dumitru Rebegea, currently in custody of billionaire Liviu Luca from Petromservice and (really for how long?) for taking bribe from usurers. godfather of prosecutor Gheorghe Muscalu from the An insignificant pawn on the chessboard of the Prosecutor's Office within the High Court of Secret Police oligarchy, he has often found a partner Cassation and Justice), "former head of Direction A and a mentor in Adrian Petre Podea, together setting within Prahova Information Service inside SRI was free well known criminal usurers, including Sandu prosecuted for influence peddling, bribery, attempt to Zamfir a.k.a. Austrianu' and Florin Pârjol a.k.a. Ghenosu'. It is important to mention that Podea (still free and making justice among other Prahova county
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If you will allow me, I will recall a story taking those in the position to come with a solution. Nobody place sometimes in 1991, while I was a reporter for knows where the idea came from, but someone “România liberă" daily. I should mention that, as a proposed staging the violent actions of the reporter for the newspaper "Dreptatea"(“Justice”), I demonstrators, thus giving the Police the justification had actively participated in the University Square and legitimacy to act in force. My interlocutor, who phenomenon and also assisted at the escalation of was there at that time, was assigned this task, with the conflict due to the instigation orchestrated by the promise that the following day he would be Police and, probably, Secret Service agents. For appointed Head of the General Inspectorate of the those who do not recall that moment, it all started Romanian Police. The man pondered on it for a few when a bus stationed near Ion Câmpineanu Street moments and then declined the offer. Naturally, they was set on fire by unidentified persons disguised as found someone else to orchestrate the frame up, the "hooligans." Moreover, the media (including myself) officer becoming a poor Police commander in one of have come into possession of a conversation that the most notorious neighborhoods of Bucharest. triggered the whole craziness.
Journalistically speaking, I was investigating an alleged crime of gang rape committed by the owner of a pub against two "night birds" (prostitutes), frequent clients of the premises. Finally it appeared that it was the revenge of a police officer from the Ozana neighborhood of Bucharest, who had borrowed money from that owner, and had no intend to pay it back. I asked to see the Chief of the Police Station and had a lengthy talk with him. Thus, the lieutenant colonel started to make some revelations. This was how I have learned that he actively participated in the events of December '89, being remarked by the FSN leaders. They promised he would be the leader of the whole structure, and the man stood close by because he obviously liked the idea; how else?! Under the pressure of Ion Iliescu and his yes men, Petre Roman, as prime minister, took on the duty to solve the situation in University Square. But since he did not know how to do that, he summoned
CHAPTER XI
Securitate Oligarchy Refuses to Surrender
Former president Emil Constantinescu has also concluded that the former Secrete Police has taken over the Romanian economy and that our country is ruled by oligarchs controlled by the intelligence services, as it happened in Russia, Belarus or Ukraine. If by oligarchs he means "old and new" Securitate agents or its puppets, brought to the front to represent the interests of their caste, then I agree with him. During Constantinescu`s term, after the dismissal of Virgil Măgureanu and Ioan Talpe , SRI and SIE Directors, the Secret Police agents infiltrated in the state structures have gone through a period of calm. Manipulation decreased to a certain extent and there were less press coverage on files created by "certain structures”. Lately, however, the "old and new" Secret Police agents have burst out, culminating with confidential conversations of the Minister of Interior or of the MPs leaking into the press.
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"Romania will Remain an Underdeveloped Weltanschauung: the profit. Nevertheless, the Country" specific trait of the Romanian capitalism is the Like I said, this system of Securitate oligarchy following: citizens benefit of no legislative protection. is undisruptedly functioning in this country and it will My first meeting with your country happened in not end anytime soon. At the most it will transform 1971... despite the nationalism communism and the again, according to the interests of the caste, into a intensive development policy, which was exceptional new form of existence because the members of the in Europe back then, despite the communism, Secret Police are closely tied to each other and despite the prison Canal of the 1950s, despite the whoever tries to separate from them is eliminated. fact that in many areas of the country people were Also, the "hostile" or "adverse" elements which would living like they were still in the 19th century ... In the throw obstacles in their way would share the same early 1990s many things seemed possible, although fate. Among the former Secret Police agents – or the the West made it soon clear what it wanted, and the "teachers" as they are called and their young ones who executed the coup d’etat have immediately disciples there is such a perfect symbiosis that one taken the economic political power in their hands, cannot exist without the others. Their common with the blessing of the Western world... Although bound: assassinations, illegal business, the chunks the “crocodiles” let the naive “innocents” play for a they have stolen from the national economy, and little while, they very quickly took the serious matters other illicit business that would terrify Westerners if into their powerful hands [...] that can be clearly seen they could understand them. today. The economic and political power is in the Perhaps this was the trigger for French hands of all important former members of the sociologist and anthropologist Claude Karnoouh to Romanian Communist Party (PCR): more precisely declare: in those of many important Securitate agents or their children`s. And I am not referring to the petty, but to Romania will remain an underdeveloped top agents. country, without no power oversees, good for its very cheap and quality labor force ... Nevertheless, you Born in 1940 in Paris, graduate of Sorbonne will see a few parrots pretending themselves to be and Paris X Nanterre universities, Karnoouh has intellectuals who, on the command of their masters, conducted several surveys of ethnography and will plead for a “locally adapted” capitalism and folklore in Maramure , studying our country since liberalism … It is true that the Romanian 1991. Between 1991 and 2002 he was a visiting intelligentsia has for a long time developed professor at "Babe Bolyai" University in Cluj. exceptionally well a sense of servility. The sins of the Romanian capitalism are the sins of capitalism in general, representing a single
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Communist regime – “Illegitimate and Romanian communist regime. A democracy without Criminal" memories is one in serious distress. We must not forget, in order to avoid making past errors. In September 2007, when European The communist regime in Romania (1945 Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso visited 1989) was illegitimate and criminal. our country and talked about the fight against The lesson of the past proves that any regime corruption, I am convinced that the Securitate agents that humiliates people cannot last and does not burst out laughing. He said at the time that: "A truly deserve to last. At present, every citizen can freely modern system, with democratic accountability, with demand that his/her inalienable rights are obeyed clear determination to fight corruption and organized and public institutions must work so that people no crime is primarily in the interest and the benefit of the longer feel humiliated. Romanian citizens". Why would be interested those who manipulate the power and finances of the Although the stated purpose of incriminating the country in the benefits of those living in the communist state and the Securitate aimed at Carpatho Danubian Pontic space? including a national reconciliation, it was more for creating a good image, one that the puppeteers of Nine months earlier, President Traian Băsescu the new democracy have not even taken into condemned communism before the two reunited account. And until the establishment of a state of Parliament chambers and government normality, as our European Union Western partners representatives. We quote from the synthesis that he perceive it, we have long to expect. Maybe too presented totaling over 600 pages and which was long... possible due to an analysis presidential commission: The Monica Macovei “Trouble” Communism was a regime imposed by a political group self appointed as keeper of truth, a Immediately after Romania's accession to the totalitarian regime born through violence and ended European structures, on January 2007, our country through violence. It was an oppressive regime that has been considered and it still is by deprived the Romanian people of five decades of Transparency International, the world press modern history, which broke the law and forced (especially the French, the Austrian, the German and citizens to live in lies and fear. the American) and also Brussels officials to be the Relevant analysis on the party apparatus and most corrupt among the EU countries. the Securitate structures and patters is a necessity. Last December, Former Justice Minister We have the necessary data for the Monica Macovei, who unsuccessfully tried to reform condemnation without right to appeal of the the institution, made the following statement to the “New York Times” American daily:
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The files of former collaborators (of the because, according to Macovei, "78% of the EU Securitate – Ed.) must be completely opened and citizens consider corruption a major problem in their placed under independent control; otherwise the country". "The lack of action in this respect system remains poisoned because former endangers taxpayers` money and the credibility of collaborators will never build a democracy. the Union. Let`s not pretend that we don`t see that!", There are many networks within which people also added the Romanian MEP. protect or blackmail each other ... Speaking about the former Minister of Justice (December 2004 April 2007), who has troubled The current Defense Minister seems to have many big bosses and many interests, let us mention faced one of them when he initially declined the another incident. Former President of the portfolio of the Ministry of Interior by refusing to grant Association for Human Rights Helsinki Committee access to organized crime into the Government. For (APADOR CH) and a founding member of those of you who do not recall that incident, some of Transparency International Romania, she was not the fellow party (PSD) members had been pushing member of any political party when she was that Senator Cătălin Voicu be appointed at least appointed Minister of Justice. On the night of April State Secretary in that structure if he was not to 13, 2006 – it was a Thursday – Monica Macovei become Minister. briefly stopped by her place in order to grab an overcoat, and then left again, in all missing for two Death solves all problems — no man, no hours. On her return, around midnight, she felt a problem Joseph Stalin strong smell of gas ever since she entered her home. Without switching the light on, she went Back to Monica Macovei, PD L Member of the straight to the stove and noticed that two burners European Parliament (MEP), it is remarkable her and were turned on, but no fire burning. She turned them four other MEPs` initiative to submit a written anti off, opened all the windows and left the house, taking corruption Statement to the EU Parliament a half an hour walk. Because it was too late to call concerning the EU initiatives to fight against the him at that hour, she sent a text message to Daniel phenomenon which would represent a clear Morar, Head of DNA, and then returned to the argument for applying the measures in this regard. apartment. Macovei had not received SPP protection Surprisingly, the statement passed, but the because she had not allegedly – formulated a difference in votes was very close, of only a few request in this respect. votes. The hypothesis that the Minister would have left More specifically, that Statement made in early the gas burning when she passed by to get her May this year calls for the Commission and the overcoat was discarded because she had not even Council to create an unyielding authority to monitor touched the stove. The incident was rather a warning corruption within the European Union. And that is that added to the denigrating media campaigns
124 MICROSOFT THE GUARDIAN ANGEL - UM 0666 125 against her. She had bothered too many people and corruption in Romania and Bulgaria to be more declared herself too much against corruption and seriously monitored, possibly introducing a traffic organized crime. A year later, the minister was light type of system is three colors: red, yellow and changed from office and ended up fighting against green. How nice! corruption, this time under EU auspices, in the Note that this mysterious OLAF was countries of former Yugoslavia. Later on, she was established on June 1, 1999, having an imposing elected MEP. headquarters in Brussels. In every EU country there The owner of OMNIS GROUP SRL had passed is one AFCOS ( Anti Fraud Coordination Service ) to through similar circumstances only that, in his case, monitor the handling of the Structural Funds and those did not seem to have been warnings, but other European stipends, in collaboration with the actions intended to kill him. First, his car was Prosecutor`s Offices in the member countries. At his sabotaged and it was sheer luck that he escaped a turn, OLAF is collaborating with all those AFCOS, fatal accident. The mechanics called on the spot centralizing the results of the fight against corruption found that someone had sabotaged the car brakes. and fraud, but without having any direct authority in Then, someone – I wonder who put kerosene those countries. In our country the AFCOS is called instead of gasoline in the fuel tank of the boat that he DLAF (Anti Fraud Department) and is directly owned and used to drive in the Delta. It was also subordinated to the Prime Minister. Why did they sheer luck that the engine did not explode, and pick this name? To look more like OLAF, as Drago Ri canu stayed alive. Romanians often have the tributary habits of monkeys who imitate everything they see. Do Europeans even want to fight high level For now I stop here discussing about the two corruption? quite strange structures having an at least questionable efficiency. For starters though, as With just a few days before Monica Macovei`s example of an OLAF action close to the ridicule, I will statement against corruption which foreshadowed – recall a great achievement of the super investigators on May 4, 2010 the European Parliament took a step in Brussels. forward on the same segment, calling the fight Prior to our accession to the European Union, against corruption in Romania to be evaluated more OLAF had reached the great performance to expose specifically with OLAF (European Anti Fraud Office). a MEP who settled a pharmacy prescription on In other words, the members of the European behalf of his mistress. The “fabulous” prejudice: the Parliament have suddenly remembered that Europe amount of 24,5 euro. Yes, exactly. Of course, is financing by 50 million euro per year an anyone can tell that it is the deed itself and not the information structure (OLAF) in order to protect amount that truly matters. OK, so can be. But, in this European money and the interests of the Union. And case, what about those 50.000 euro collected from that it was time for the Justice and the fight against PHARE by RSC SRL, Vlădescu`s company, at a
126 MICROSOFT THE GUARDIAN ANGEL - UM 0666 127 time when he had one or two employees, all of them study. And this is what I have been doing for the last lacking experience in IT&C? In that case, when the twenty years. To defend human rights, justice and amount was significantly higher than 24.5 euro, does moral values of a civil society painfully suffering for the deed not count anymore? decades. I could be as much as arrested at some point and I am aware of it. And that would be, of How many Securitate agents per European? course, for an imaginary or framed guilt. But now it is too late to give up. And there are also a few like me So far I have tried to show that, in Romania, the out there. I do not know how many they are, but we Secret Police (or Securitate) is not dead. Quite the are plenty. And we are terribly annoying. contrary. The tentacles of this octopus have spread There is no doubt about it; the whole media is to the whole territory and the whole economy, and packed with undercover agents of the many for more than three years, after our accession to the Romanian secret services. This is a fact also EU, they have also penetrated the European recognized by the Romanian Intelligence Service structures. that recently stated with some disappointment that, I am also extremely convinced that the as compared to other secret structures, the agency European bureaucracy in Brussels has no idea of has significantly less undercover agents in the what is really facing; and how dangerous the media. Securitate oligarchy is for all human values with which it comes into contact, and especially for A matter of mentality individuals themselves towards whom it never shows the slightest sign of respect. All that truly matters is At this point I believe it is worth mentioning an material wealth, to hide the truth and the interest of incident which took place in 2007 and in which I was the caste. In addition to that, for them there is involved while being a specialty reporter at “ZIUA” nothing else. And this ideology has been present in daily. It was an incident that gave me much food for Romania for almost 70 years. thought. The editorial office was near the Ministry of What is the reaction of the CSAT (Supreme Interior`s headquarters, in downtown Bucharest. The Council of National Defense) in this situation? It access on those streets was cumbered by the concludes that some press campaigns against parked cars, and rarely could two cars fit while corruption and corrupt state institutions – in which passing side by side. I entered one of these streets, corrupters are exposed are threatening national drove on about twenty meters when, coming from security. Fascinating! the opposite direction, I found myself facing a blue That means that I can also declare myself one MI Volkswagen in which there were two persons. of the terrorists of this country's democratic system Both of us did not stop until we came face to face. since I uncover and fight against high level So as to pass first, the driver asked me to move corruption – this is what I am aiming at with this backwards. Like I said, that meant more than twenty
128 MICROSOFT THE GUARDIAN ANGEL - UM 0666 129 meters, he merely having a couple of meters so as to Criminals are afflicted people. do the same. Assassins are trained people Move so we can pass first! said the driver. The person sitting on the passenger’s seat, To close, I would like to refer to yet another who appeared to be someone of a higher rank, did situation in which one can end up because of this not say anything throughout the dispute, but looked country`s justice, which is corrupt to the bone. Or frowningly at me as if he wanted to kill me by a better said, not a situation, but a state of mind hard glance. to imagine by an ordinary person. You saw that I was already driving in the Because he refused to do business with the street and you should have waited for me to pass state and to associate with the current scams, who this bottleneck, after which the road would have would have guaranteed his success, Drago Ri canu been free, I replied. was stolen a software worth hundreds of millions Shut up and move backwards! euro if not more , a house, and he was the target I don`t want to. What are you going to do of two assassination attempts. At one point, realizing about it? or just sensing what might happen, in 2005, he At that moment he saw the ZIUA badge on the published some of his thoughts on the windshield. www.coruptia.ro website, which I will present below: Oh, you're from the press! Yes, I am. Nothing but good thoughts about ASSASSINS With a sour smile, the driver moved backwards, letting me pass. When our cars came side by side he Assassins are not criminals said to me: Criminals are afflicted people You did not move backwards because you Assassins are trained people knew that we are from the (Ministry of) Interior. Assassinations are not spontaneous; they Exactly. You don`t have more rights than I are committed on order have. Never mind, soon we will be back. We will Criminals have souls, they kill out of mistake, chop you to pieces ... jealousy, greed, revenge, frustration, drunkenness, And he showed me how, letting go of the madness, they kill humanly , they kill someone they steering wheel and hitting the edge of his right palm know, they kill "in the open", they make mistakes and on his left palm. are usually caught by a society appalled that an You will never be back, you scum! I could not ordinary man can resort to committing a murder by refrain myself. himself to solve a personal matter. But then I thought to myself: where to come back from, since they did not even go anywhere?!
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Assassins have skills, they kill after they have that they could be credibly denied by the person who received professional training, in depth knowledge would benefit from the assassination, should the which has been practiced for a long time, good unlikely possibility occur that the victim survived. The scores in the graduation exams and they use poison most successful assassinations are framed that leaves no trace, bullets that make no noise, accidents. The optimum conditions are created sabotaged cars, drowning by the shore, no escape (sabotaging car brakes or a boat`s engine, etc..), polonium. They do not know their victims , do not leaving the rest to chance. make mistakes and are not identified by a society terrorized by the mere fact that such elements exist The ideal situation is when the "subject" is not and which, at some point, might turn against them. alone, so as to avoid the speculations that there was They exist because all societies train their assassins a "target." to protect state interests, to respond to similar acts of aggression, to ensure the safety of the state of law, When the "subject" is accompanied by a friend of democracy, of its own citizens. or preferably family members, then we have a perfect case for a total, invisible, unclaimed act of What happens when assassins define state assassination. interests and fail to distinguish them of their own interests? When they act without order or take It is important to have "collateral victims", for their own initiatives? When they act against their maximum reliability and denial. own country`s citizens, against the state of law, against democracy?
State of law becomes criminal state. Romania has been and it still is a country at the mercy of assassins.
The assassinations are ordered only if the interests are so great as to justify such a solution. Major interests are: political, economic or political economic (to understand: the opportunity to exploit political office for economic advantage to steal from the state).
If assassinations are committed to give political advantage, they should be committed in such a way
ANNEXES
Annex 1
Microsoft blacklists
Journalist John C. Dvorak, one of the most competent persons in the media in the field of high tech, has made the following statement:
“In the 1980s, the company was notorious for keeping Nixonian lists regarding journalists on a whiteboard showing which were "Okay," "Sketchy," or "Needs work." Some believed that those in the last category would be the target of the company in an effort to get them fired. I myself was on a Microsoft blacklist for some totally unknown reason and was not allowed any information about an early version of Windows, apparently because I was considered uncooperative. I only found out about this because of documents unearthed during the discovery process of the Comes v. Microsoft lawsuit in Iowa. [...] threats from the company did manage to get me removed as a licensed columnist in PC Magazine Italy.”
Journalist Mary Jo Foley has faced a similar situation:
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“I was blacklisted by Microsoft for writing a story based on an internal memo penned by Mark Lucovsky (now employee of Google, ironically) that acknowledged 63,000 bugs were still left in Windows 2000 when the product was shipped. I was barred from executive interviews at the Windows 2000 launch as a result of my story. My "punishment" lasted for a few years. Certain Windows execs Annex 2 refused to speak to me or meet with me for ages because of that story . I believed, and still believe, March 31, 2009 – ECIS Report: that I was just doing my job as a reporter.” A History of Anticompetitive Behavior and Consumer Harm
MICROSOFT’S HISTORY OF ANTICOMPETITIVE CONDUCT Microsoft’s Campaign to Destroy DR DOS Microsoft’s Anticompetitive per Processor License Fees Microsoft’s Retaliation and Price Discrimination against IBM Microsoft’s Organized Collective Boycott against Intel Microsoft’s Elimination of Word Perfect Microsoft’s Deceptive WISE Software Program Microsoft’s Elimination of Netscape Microsoft’s Attempts to Extinguish Java Microsoft’s Elimination of Rival Media Players Microsoft’s Campaign against Rival Server Operating Systems
In the early 1980s, Microsoft purchased an early version of a standard disk operating system
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(“DOS”) that became known as MS DOS. At the Finally, when Microsoft’s proprietary software or time, a number of rival operating systems offered standards have achieved widespread adoption, features, such as the ability to run multiple programs Microsoft “extinguishes” its competitors by dropping at the same time, that Microsoft’s operating systems any remaining pretense of compatibility. would not offer until years later. At the time, operating systems were just beginning to move from In 1994, the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) a command based interface to a graphical user filed an antitrust suit against Microsoft challenging interface. this conduct, resulting in a consent decree under Microsoft developed a graphical user interface which Microsoft agreed to stop using per processor known as Windows. Early versions of Windows did license fees. But the anticompetitive practice had not actually “run” the computer – rather, they were a already been quite effective in reducing competitors’ shell surrounding the underlying DOS program, share, particularly when combined with Microsoft’s which in turn ran the computer. Initially, Windows other actions directed against DR DOS. embraced the DOS standard, which meant that Windows would run on top of any DOS, including Also in the mid 1990s, Microsoft took a series DR DOS, Microsoft’s principal rival in the DOS of steps to punish IBM for promoting a competing market. operating system and personal productivity This initial interoperability came to be known as application suite. part of Microsoft’s now classic “embrace, extend, and extinguish” strategy, which Microsoft has Microsoft also used exclusive agreements to subsequently and successfully employed in many promote its “polluted” version of Java and, as noted other product areas. above, Microsoft threatened Intel to stop Intel from supporting Sun Microsystems’ Java standards. As NKVD Manual, article 4243: the D.C. Circuit later explained, “Microsoft’s Paul Denigrate, hire, and liquidate. Maritz told a senior Intel executive that Intel’s [development of software that was compatible with] Here it is how it worked the interoperability: Sun’s Java standards was as inimical to Microsoft as This strategy has three phases: First, Microsoft Microsoft’s support for non Intel microprocessors “embraces” a competing product by developing would be to Intel…. Microsoft threatened Intel that if software or implementing standards that are it did not stop aiding Sun on the multimedia front, compatible with the competing product. Microsoft then Microsoft would refuse to distribute Intel then “extends” its own offering by creating features technologies bundled with Windows.” Intel or standards that are interoperable only with capitulated, and dropped its support for Java. Microsoft’s proprietary technologies.
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Microsoft’s overall plan to neutralize Java as a and instead had essentially re packaged a scaled middleware threat was extremely successful. As the down version of an existing enterprise level product. Fourth Circuit explained in a subsequent private suit brought by Sun Microsystems: Despite international scrutiny of Microsoft’s First, Microsoft “embraced” the Java technology anticompetitive conduct, Microsoft has continued to by licensing from Sun the right to use its Java take similar unlawful actions to eliminate potential Technology to develop and distribute compatible competitive threats. The only real difference between Products. Microsoft’s more recent practices and its earlier ones Second, Microsoft “extended” the Java platform is that, as Mr. Gates predicted, Microsoft has now by developing strategic incompatibilities into its Java changed its document retention practices. runtime and development tools products…. Third, Microsoft used its distribution channels to flood the In 2003, the DOJ discovered that Microsoft had market with its version of the Java Technology in built a feature into Windows that invoked Microsoft’s [what Sun characterized as] an attempt to “hijack the Internet Explorer browser, rather than the user’s Java Technology and transform it into a Microsoft chosen default browser, contrary to the clear proprietary programming and runtime environment.” obligations of the Final Judgment. Similarly, in 2004, Microsoft attempted to require licensees of its Microsoft’s conduct eventually drew scrutiny middleware offering, the .NET Framework, to obtain from the European Commission, which condemned Microsoft’s prior consent before publishing any Microsoft’s refusal to release information that would benchmark testing results for the software. In 2005, allow other server operating systems to connect to Microsoft demanded that manufacturers of portable personal computers running Microsoft’s Windows music players sign exclusive deals if they wanted operating system. In a 2004 decision, the European integration with Microsoft’s Windows Media Player. Commission found that if Microsoft succeeded in And in 2007, Microsoft made changes to allow eliminating other server operating systems as consumers limited choice of desktop search products competitive threats, then innovation would be in Windows Vista only following an extensive severely limited. And, in fact, after releasing government investigation and pressure from a Windows Server 2003 to lukewarm reviews, number of U.S. States. While Microsoft eventually Microsoft failed to release a new server version of made changes to its conduct in each of these Windows until 2008. Even then, many reviewers instances, these incidents all demonstrate noted that, despite aggressive marketing to small Microsoft’s willingness to use its monopoly products and midsize business users and a special edition of aggressively first and make changes later only when the server operating system just for these users, confronted about its behavior. This is particularly Microsoft had done very little to address their needs, striking coming, as it does, within the very limited range of issues covered by the Final Judgment. In
142 MICROSOFT THE GUARDIAN ANGEL - UM 0666 143 fact, the district court overseeing the Final Judgment technologies, including SharePoint, Outlook, extended the decree for two more years, to Exchange, and Office. November 12, 2009, because Microsoft still has not come into compliance with its obligations regarding As the Commission observed, it took Microsoft communications protocols. three years even to approach releasing the amount of interoperability information the European Court of Microsoft’s bullying tactics therefore raise the First Instance had ordered it to release. overall cost and slow down market penetration by innovative technologies intended to compete with Microsoft’s history clearly demonstrates its Microsoft’s monopoly products. longstanding practice of making one set of statements about interoperability in public and then In an apparent escalation of its patent FUD implementing a wholly different approach to strategy, Microsoft sued the navigational system interoperability in practice. vendor, TomTom, for patent infringement at the end of February 2009. Three patent claims related to For fifteen years, Microsoft’s share of desktop Linux are included in the lawsuit. At least two of them operating systems has remained above 90%.149 In are related to highly questionable patents on long file 2002, when the Final Judgment in United States v. name support in Windows, which have been partially Microsoft was entered, Windows XP was the most invalidated by an EC patent court on the grounds common desktop operating system. Microsoft did not that Microsoft’s patent claims were “not based on release a successor to Windows XP until 2007, when inventive activity”. While Microsoft has publicly it released Windows Vista. Even then, the “Vista” claimed that its action is not directed against Linux or that Microsoft released lacked the most significant open source, and the case was settled in March features that Microsoft had initially promised, and 2009 pursuant to a mostly confidential agreement, reviewers labeled it as little more than an this represents an aggressive development of incremental improvement. CNet News, a leading Microsoft’s use of spurious or highly questionable computer industry publication, ranked Microsoft’s patent claims to intimidate and eliminate competition Windows Vista in its “Top Ten Terrible Tech from Linux in order to maintain or strengthen its Products.” dominant position in the OS market. Even Microsoft recognizes that its stronghold on operating systems has harmed consumers: The EC continues to investigate a number of The Windows API is … so deeply embedded in other actions Microsoft has taken to tie products to the source code of many Windows apps that there is Windows as well as Microsoft’s refusal to enable a huge switching cost to using a different operating interoperability with certain of its monopoly system instead. … It is this switching cost that has given customers the patience to stick with Windows
144 MICROSOFT through all our mistakes, our buggy drivers, our high TCO, our lack of a sexy vision at times, and many other difficulties… Customers constantly evaluate other desktop platforms, [but] it would be so much work to move over that they hope we just improve Windows rather than force them to move. In short, without this exclusive franchise called the Windows Annex 3 API, we would have been dead a long time ago. Minister of Health worked for arms dealer CONCLUSION Shimon Naor (Article published in "Averea" daily July 2006) Microsoft’s conduct over the last two decades has demonstrated Microsoft’s willingness and ability Dangerous liaisons to engage in unlawful conduct to protect and extend its core monopolies. This conduct has caused real The current Minister of Health, Eugen harm to consumers, who continue to pay high prices Nicolăescu, was former employee of the famous and use lower quality products than would have arms dealer Shimon Naor, now sought by the prevailed in a competitive market. By understanding Interpol for violation of the embargo imposed on Microsoft’s history of anticompetitive conduct, certain African countries. The high official worked at developers, consumer groups, and government "Corona” company, considered a cover up company authorities will be better equipped to recognize for the arms smuggling. current and future Microsoft misconduct at an early stage and intervene to prevent Microsoft from using Former director of RATMIL (today ROMARM) – tactics other than competition on the merits. ECIS an administration unit established by Ceau escu to remains hopeful that the European Commission’s export military equipment to African countries – latest Statement of Objections addressing Nicolăescu has one gap year in his resume Microsoft’s misconduct will finally mark the beginning between '98 and '99 , which he refuses to make of the end of Microsoft’s two decades of remarks upon. anticompetitive behavior and consumer harm. Ever since '90, the current Minister of Health has been committed to RATMIL, being advanced to economic director in '94 and, in '97, under CDR (Democratic Convention of Romania – Ed.) administration, he was appointed CEO. In November '98, CDR struck a deal with PD (Democratic Party –
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Ed.) for a trade: Nicolăescu would resign from his evidence that Nicolăescu was active on the arms CEO position at RATMIL and instead he would be market. Subsequently, the "Filiera Arme" scandal appointed general secretary in the Ministry of centered on Shimon Naor and “Corona” company Finance. Thus, Nicolăescu`s position at RATMIL was controlled by him exploded in Romania. entrusted to Gigel Bratiloveanu, a Democratic Party The Israeli (with Romanian citizenship – Ed.) favorite. One year passed until Nicolăescu was given was arrested, but also released in the meantime. He the promised position within the Ministry of Finance disappeared from the country and today he is still in '99. sought for (he was arrested in May 2010, in France – During that period, according to sources in the Ed.). The Bucharest Justice found him guilty in arms industry, the current Minister of Health was absentia for arms smuggling to Eritrea, Nigeria and employed by Israeli Shimon Naor, whom he knew attention! – to Ethiopia, where I have found the before, as Naor had done arms business with "traces" of the current Minister of Health. Moreover, RATMIL. Consequently, Nicolăescu worked for the our sources told us that Naor has been linked over famous smuggler at "Corona" and held, among time to all former directors of RATMIL, not only to others, the position of independent external auditor. Nicolăescu. "Corona" is none other than the company Contacted by "Averea", the high official sent us his acting as a screen behind which "Filiera Arme" answer through a spokesman: "The minister is in (“Arms Connection”) smuggling operation was session, but he would like you to know that in the carried out, for which Shimon Naor was convicted by period '98 '99 he worked elsewhere. I cannot tell if the Romanian justice and is today sought worldwide. he had or didn`t have connections with Shimon Naor”. "The Link" between Romania and Ethiopia
For Shimon Naor`s company, Nicolăescu was a "gold mine". Former RATMIL CEO, the current Minister had strong connections with importers of arms from Africa and the Middle East and he could be a "link" to huge business opportunities. A document presented to the press in the late `90s shows that on June 16 '98, engineer Eugen Nicolăescu (at that time ROMARM CEO) sent a fax to IBRAHA company, RA ROMTEHNICA representative in Ethiopia, offering special products on producer prices, in competition with those supplied on RA ROMTEHNICA prices. This is
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Vlădescu, Minister of Finance, Exported Arms to Africa (Article published in Evenimentul Zilei November 2005)
In Boss Exim Trading Group SRL, the high official associated himself with persons in connection to the former communist Securitate.
Until he became Minister of Finance, Sebastian Vlădescu was involved, as a businessman, in most of the industries, ranging from computers and medicine to constructions and consultancy. What is less known about him is that businessman Vlădescu was also involved in arms business. Being a shareholder in a strategic company, Vlădescu exported arms to Africa and associated himself with persons involved with the former communist Securitate.
Associated with People from the Communist Regime
When he was appointed Minister of Finance in the Tăriceanu Government, Vlădescu wrote in his declaration of assets that he was shareholder in
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Boss Exim Trading Group SRL. According to data Mr. Vlădescu is very simple: he is my wife`s former provided by the website of the Ministry of Finance, university colleague and we have known each other the company`s object of activity is wholesale trade. since before '89," said Ceau elu. Ever since 1992, The company was founded in 1998 by three he has done business on civilian products with the shareholders: Bogdan Ceau elu, Otto Breuer and Romanian Army, and thus entered the circles Sebastian Vlădescu and in key position, employed frequented by retired General Otto Breuer. The latter by the three to handle business transactions, was was well acquainted with Adrian GhiŃă, son of retired Adrian GhiŃă. What does not appear on the Ministry General Grigore GhiŃă. Thus they established Boss of Finance`s website is that Boss Exim Trading Exim Trading Group SRL, Ceau elu having 34 Group SRL is dealing with arms trade; that Otto shares and Vlădescu and Breuer 33 shares each. As Breuer is a retired General and the man who, as for Adrian GhiŃă, he was weapons specialist. Africa Deputy of the Danube Black Sea Canal Station, was was the first connection to be opened. "In many a trusted person of the ancient regime; and that countries of North Africa, Romanian military Adrian GhiŃă is a former employee of ROMTEHNICA equipment exported some years ago still exist and it arms company and son of retired General Grigore needs repairing; therefore, that is what we have GhiŃă, convicted for the Otopeni massacre of 1989. focused on", stated Ceau elu. Although initially acquitted by the High Court of Cassation and Justice, the Court of Appeal notified Illegal Export of Anti tank Grenades by the relatives of the victims sentenced Securitate General GhiŃă to six years imprisonment for third "We have all agreed that we need a specialist degree murder and dismissed the appeal for in arms exports and so we hired Mr. GhiŃă, especially annulment filed by the Romanian General since he had worked at ROMTEHNICA", said Prosecutor, Tănase JoiŃa; Grigore GhiŃă served less Bogdan Ceau elu. GhiŃă is indeed an "expert" but than two years of his sentence when he was with criminal consequences on strategic exports. pardoned by president Ion Iliescu "on humanitarian Through his own company, Armexim Grup, that grounds and for this act of clemency to lead to the General GhiŃă`s son established in 2001, he social integration of those who have received it" – exported 52.000 anti tank grenades from the Ed.). Bulgarian Arsenal Co. arms factory to Sakr Factory in Egypt. The transaction, worth 650.000 dollars, was Arms on African Connection made without Adrian GhiŃă holding all ANCEX (National Agency for Export Control) export licenses. How has the current Minister of Finance ended Hence, that business has turned into a criminal case. up in the company of these characters? He met Otto Adrian GhiŃă does not see where the problem is: "We Breuer through Bogdan Ceau elu, a businessman overlooked the fact that we did not have the ANCEX who controls several trade companies. "How I met license. But it is a mistake for which I have already
152 MICROSOFT THE GUARDIAN ANGEL - UM 0666 153 paid for as ANCEX has suspended my export license unsuccessful business; however, his connections for three months. I will show in the Prosecutor's with the Kuwaities were later useful to export steel Office" also added GhiŃă. products through Braco Group, in which Breuer is a shareholder. The former Deputy of the Danube Black Vlădescu Stepped out of the Business Sea Canal Station has brokered for Kuwait a business project involving tens of millions of dollars Vlădescu has only words of praise about his to build part of the civilian airport of Sofia, Bulgaria. associates. In a statement made to "Evenimentul zilei”, Vlădescu said that "Bogdan Ceau elu is a friend and a business partner. Otto Breuer is too. He is a gentleman that I love to talk with. I am sorry that I don`t get to see him too often. He is a man totally dedicated to the Danube Black Sea Canal and a very good partner". Instead, he dissociated from GhiŃă. "At my suggestion, Mr. GhiŃă was dismissed from Boss Exim Trading Group. He has not done a good job. After that, I have heard rumors that, meanwhile working here, he had also been preoccupied with his own business", added the Minister of Finance. Once he was appointed in the government, he stepped out of the arms exporting company, conceding his shares to the two remaining partners.
Breuer, Connections as Far as Kuwait
Otto Breuer is a reserve General, a rank received in early 1990 from Ion Iliescu. In 1991 he retired, but not before making a visit to Kuwait as an active serviceman and representative of Romania to help put out the fire at the oil wells. In Kuwait, Breuer has built connections with one of the largest companies in the world, Mohamed Abdulmohsin Kharafi & Sons, with which he set up several limited liability companies in Romania. These were
Annex 5
Dr. Death`s Scams (Article published in ZIUA daily 2007)
Chief Commissioner Adrian Murea, surgeon at "Gerota" hospital of the Ministry of Interior, together with the management of this entity, they have defrauded businessman Drago Ri canu. Public Finance Minister Sebastian Vlădescu is also part of this group of interests.
Doctor Adrian Murea from "Professor Dr. Dimitrie Gerota” Emergency Hospital of the Ministry of Interior used the identities of two patients dying of cancer in real estate frauds. Both patients died two weeks after the fraudulent transactions. Also, he has abused his own child and the child`s mother and then stole his father in law`s Mercedes. This doctor Mengele of the Interior illegally owns a RA APPS (Self governing Department for Administration of the State Heritage and Protocol) apartment as he inherited from his father, Victor Murea (former Minister of Petroleum at the time of the communists, then FSN Deputy and Mayor of Târgu Jiu) a four room apartment in Bucharest. Doctor Death has stolen a house from businessman Drago Ri canu, which he had legally purchased. Meanwhile,
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Romanian Soft Company SRL, in which the Minister of memorial houses, and not on that of heritage of Finance is also an associate member, has stolen historical buildings. A series of administrative from the same Ri canu software worth hundreds of procedures follow, including a few processes with thousands of euro. By utmost coincidence, the the Ministry of Culture, but eventually the final software is also used “just like that” by the "Gerota" decision is given in favor of the owner. In 2003, hospital of the Ministry of Administration and Interior, Ri canu finds out from his assistant that he can no which no longer leaves any doubt that the longer pay the tax on his propery as he has done destruction of the victim has been carefully before because the property on Delavrancea Street orchestrated. Colonel Victor Nesterov also played an had been sold. essential part in this evil scenario at the time when he was head of the judicial investigations within the Dying Seller General Inspectorate of Romanian Police. The surprise turns even bigger when he learns Property Sold without Knowledge of the Owner that he had supposedly sold his house through a trustee to none other than surgeon Adrian Murea Drago Ri canu is owner of OMNIS GROUP from “Dr. Gerota” Hospital of the MAI. The SRL, Romania`s first private company, founded in transaction had been certified at the notary office of 1990, with the sole object of activity: software Livia Alexandru, in the presence of Doctor Death and development. Six years later it became the first tefan Macovei. From this point on, the injured party Microsoft Certified Partner in our country, winning begins his own investigation. He thus learns that in various awards in professional competitions. 2002, while being in the U.S., he had supposedly In 1998, Ri canu buys from Ruxandra Ioana mandated Macovei to sell his house on Delavrancea Huch a property in Bucharest, located on 47 Barbu Street to doctor Murea. Just that he had not even Delavrancea Street, where Mihail Sadoveanu had been in the States that year. Moreover, at the time lived until his death. He pays for the house 250.000 the scam happened, Macovei former active USD by banking instruments so that there is no employee of the Ministry of Interior was Doctor doubt concerning the transaction. He provides the Death`s patient. He was suffering of terminal stage tenants with two apartments and a studio, also cancer, was non transportable and under continuous concluding bailment agreements valid throughout administration of morphine. Therefore, it is their lives. Furthermore, he pays all maintenance impossible that he went to the notary office in order costs and often gives them material support. to sign those false documents. Obviously, neither Towards the end of '98, and with the intention to Ri canu, nor Macovei or his family has seen any repair the building, Ri canu orders a technical money from the amount allegedly paid by Murea for expertise that ascertained its high degree of wear. At the house stolen, seemingly, with legal documents. that time he also learns that the house is on the list
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"You do not even know who you are messing documents, using a scam, counted little to nothing. with" She preferred to wash her hands of it. In exchange for this favor, Alexandra Mihaela inc, daughter of Drago Ri canu contacts the alleged owner, the spokesman of the Chamber of Notaries Public, Adrian Murea, to try to understand what it is all was advanced to the Superior Council of Magistracy about. He replies using a calm and elevated tone of (CSM) where she is still working today. She is voice and being very self possessed: "Under normal Deputy Director of the Human Resources and circumstances it is as you say, but unfortunately you Organization Department. do not even know what world you live in. You will not get this problem solved until you pay. You do not Third Attempt even know who you are messing with". ZIUA reporters have repeatedly contacted Protected by the Police and Prosecutor's Doctor Death to establish a meeting with him. Office, Adrian Murea tried to get rid of the house in Unfortunately, we have been given only promises 47 Delavrancea Street by using a new trick. He and postponements. Given the situation, we have fictitiously borrowed from his own mistress, Ioana given up on our legitimate approach. It was obvious Simona Dumitrescu, a certain amount of money and, that Murea is not willing to give explanations. as he did not return it to her, he agreed to be executed by force of the property stolen from Reward on Favor Ri canu. Luckily, the latter found out about it on time and prevented the execution at the last minute. But From the police, the case landed at the the gang of criminals did not stop there. Further, Prosecutor's Office within the High Court of after she married and became Mrs. Cristescu, Cassation and Justice. Prosecutor Alexandra Simona concluded with a businessman from GalaŃi, Mihaela inc, who skillfully investigated the criminal namely Emil Alexandru Bălan, a debt assignment activity of Joseph Stark, Livia Alexandru and Adrian agreement for the amount of approximately 215.000 Murea, put the first one behind bars and set the euro, the amount she should have received from other two free. Should someone requested it, the Adrian Murea. Bălan would execute by force doctor notary could not have been investigated because the "MAI" with the house on Delavrancea Street, thus Ministry of Justice would have not given its approval becoming its bona fide owner, and Simona would in this respect. Concerning Doctor Death, "because have supposedly gained 140.000 euro out of this so far (19/03/2004 – Ed.) we could not determine his transaction, which is very unlikely. In conclusion, with contribution to the crime, I order the severance of the the help of the accomplices that I have nominated, cause under this aspect”, ruled Prosecutor inc. The Dr. Death tries for a third time to dispose of the fact that Murea had used the identity of a dying property stolen from Ri canu. person or that he had bought a house with false
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Thief Appointed Guardian believe that such an extensive operation required months to prepare by the Police. Floppy disks, fake In the Court reunion of February 21, 2007 the stamps and several sale and purchase agreements property on Delavrancea Street was placed under with the corresponding documentation nicely judicial sequestration. Furthermore, thief Murea was arranged in 19 plastic folders have been found in appointed administrator of the seizure so as to and confiscated from his home. Among the stamps properly safeguard the property; on the other hand, there was one identical with the one on the power of Ri canu was forced to submit a deposit of 5.000 attorney that Ri canu has supposedly given to late RON to the court. This happened after almost four Macovei in the U.S. Therefore, if Colonel Nesterov years since the real owner has been struggling to wanted to, the document used by Dr. Death could regain his property stolen by the white coated have been proven false even before he registered mobster from "Gerota” hospital. the house on his name. Regarding the involvement of Minister Furthermore, on March 17, 2003, Stark was Sebastian Vlădescu in the business and the called to the General Inspectorate of Romanian involvement of this MAI hospital unit into the Police (IGPR) to give statements, but the destruction of Drago Ri canu, we are going to investigators questioned him only in connection with discuss them in the following episodes. some car transactions, persistently avoiding the real estate topic. Judicial Support from the General Inspectorate On March 19, 2003, the Criminal Police of Romanian Police Directorate within IGPR demands the U.S. Embassy in Bucharest to provide information regarding the On April 1, 2003, swindler Adrian Murea notary act signed in New York between Ri canu and registers the house on his name with the Land Macovei. They thus find out that the document is a Register. Before that date there had been several fake, because "We have not found any public notary notable events, the investigators led by Victor named Helen Nielsen in Richmond, New York, Nesterov coming into possession of clear evidence because there is no Richmond in New York”. that the transaction had been staged based on Some time later on, following a graphologic utmost forgeries. However, the police did not do expertise, the Forensic Institute of the IGPR certified anything about it, thus serving Doctor "MAI"`s that the deceased tefan Macovei`s signature on the interests. sale and purchase agreement, allegedly concluded Based on a warrant issued in 2002, on March with Dr. Death, had been forged. 13, 2003 a searched was performed in Joseph It must also be noted that, during all that time, Stark`s home. He is a character involved in the surgeon has never been asked by investigators suspicious property transactions and tried for two to make his own statements. and a half years on remand custody. This makes us
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Unquestionably, all this evidence proves that organize the Militia is Deputy Executive Director at the IGPR team led by Col. Victor Nesterov delayed Community Police District 1. the investigations on the case so that surgeon Adrian The injured party showed up at the Police Murea could register the stolen property on headquarters at 8:00 a.m., following which he made Delavrancea Street on his name. copies for the investigators of the documents that he had. He left the IGPR premises at 4:00 p.m. "Someone Might Attack Us" Sometime later on, he learned from the documents in the case file and other documents held in At his insistence, on May 27, 2003, Drago Prosecutor`s Offices that Adrian Murea was Ri canu is admitted to the Criminal Police examined on the same day. This obviously is a lie. Department for questioning. He is examined by a Perhaps the police, to cover their lack of interest in panel of six policemen led by Nesterov. At first, the investigating the swindler, or their complicity with investigators try to make Ri canu look like the crook him, later on took a statement from him that they in the business and, after that, they start threatening backdated. him. Here is what he told us: "Col. Nesterov And there is one more thing. Deceased tefan recommended that I had better stood there, in Macovei `s family filed a complaint against Dr. Switzerland, with my wife and children as in Death, who used their relative`s identity to steal a Romania many things can happen someone might house. Trying to take possession of the medical file simply attack us someday. He continued threatening of the deceased, the family members learned with that if I did not give them some kind of statement, I astonishment that the documents have disappeared would not be allowed to leave the country anymore, without trace. And that happened, however although I have dual, Romanian and Swiss, improbable it may seem, in a hospital of the Ministry citizenship." of Interior. For the fact that his family had been threatened, Ri canu warned Nesterov that he would call the attention of the Western press trusts to write Piracy within the Ministry of Interior and the about this fascinating subject. The Head of Criminal Romanian Intelligence Service Police Department then loosened up and asked him (Article published in ZIUA – 2007) not to do that, because he would solve the problem. After one week, even though he had talked on the Two hospitals, of the Ministry of Interior and of phone with the Colonel, Ri canu learned that the Intelligence Service, have received pirated Nesterov had suddenly retired. software free of charge in exchange for the At present, Victor Nesterov son of Arkadie protection of the benefactors. Following the Nesterov, who came from Russia to Romania to intelligence theft, 50.000 Euros from EU funds have been misappropriated.
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Bucharest Emergency hospitals “Professor Dr. the implementation of three new software products. Dimitrie Gerota” and “Professor Dr. Agrippa Ionescu” The company gravely prejudiced with millions of received the HIPOCRATE software free of charge dollars learned about this piracy in November 2004. from ROMANIAN SOFT COMPANY (RSC) SRL. The As was expected, OMNIS took samples of the software had been written in a blink of an eye based source code from the RSC website and addressed on a software stolen from OMNIS GROUP SRL.. 20 ORDA. Rather than engage in solving this dirty other hospitals in the area, 3rd district City Hall and business, two directors of the institution, Eugen several companies have purchased applications Vasiliu and Adrian Ghimpu, urged the OMNIS ARES.NET, CARE.NET and AMBULANłA, all representatives to purchase from RSC the created based on the same intelligence theft. applications suspected to be stolen so as to later Despite the protection of the pirates by compare them to ISIS.net system. In late November representatives of the Romanian Office for Copyright 2004, the injured party addressed the Ministry of the (ORDA), the Police, the Prosecutor`s Office and the Administration and Interior, specifically General expert chosen by looks, after more than three years, Marian SăniuŃă, and on December 7 th they filed a the Bucharest Court (TB) has ordered the reopening complaint with the Police, the Prosecutor's Office, of the criminal proceedings against the perpetrators. ORDA and the General Inspectorate for It has also abolished prosecutor Nicoleta Bulgaru`s Communication and Information Technology. orders, from the Bucharest Court, by which the names of the culprits had been cleared and the deed Covered Sponsorship had been declared nonexistent. On November 12, 2002, a strange sponsorship European Funds Misuse contract was concluded between RSC SRL and “Professor Dr. Dimitrie Gerota” Foundation (which In February 2003, Drago tefan Săracu, operates under the umbrella of the Ministry of employee of OMNIS SRL, migrates to RSC SRL and Interior). The sponsor granted the recipient the after one month he recruits Irinel Lupei in the new exploitation rights on HIPOCRATE computer system company. They do not leave empty handed and free of charge, the system being registered with copy around 5.000 source codes from a technology ORDA only two months earlier. Its value amounted platform at which many OMNIS specialists had been to 178.500 USD, including VAT. Its purpose: "The working since 1990. Based on the ISIS.net system, informational system given as sponsorship is meant which had been stolen, the ARES.NET, CARE.NET, for activity and management tracking across the AMBULANłA and HIPOCRATE applications have whole hospital (...)."Only that the foundation did not, been created and sold preferably to state institutions. nor does it have, any hospital, which prooves that, in In this way they have also justified a 50.000 euro fact, a scam had been planned. And there is one worth PHARE funding, which RSC had received for more thing: the program was not delivered to the
166 MICROSOFT THE GUARDIAN ANGEL - UM 0666 167 foundation until a few days after Drago Săracu had In December 2004, OMNIS notifies “Gerota” been appointed director of RSC, in February 2003. In Hospital to stop using the HIPOCRATE program June the same year, the IT & C Directorate within the which has been developed based on the stolen Ministry of Interior informs "Gerota" Hospital that the ISIS.net system source codes that belong to them software "meets the requirements” a hospital which as recorded in the ORDA Register for Computer should have nothing to do with that software since Programs. After several insistence, the same Chief RSC had sponsored the foundation baring the same Commissioner Viorel Ro u – answers with a lie by name and not the hospital. stating that “Gerota” Hospital does not employ any of the programs claimed by the copyright owners. Following a similar scenario, but a little earlier, General Berechet Gives his Approval the HIPOCRATE software was also delivered free of charge to “Agrippa Ionescu” SRI Hospital. Two days later, things are clarified. “Professor Dr. Dimitrie Gerota” Foundation expresses its Proven Theft intention to donate the HIPOCRATE informational system to”Professor Dr. Dimitrie Gerota” Hospital for Under all sorts of pretexts, including the free. The hospital`s director, Chief Commissioner Dr. necessity for a warrant issued by the prosecutor, Viorel Ro u (now retired), addresses the General ORDA representatives refuse to make an inspection Directorate of Intelligence and Internal Protection of at RSC to investigate the complaint filed by OMNIS. the Ministry of Interior, requesting approval to accept Instead, chief inspector Adrian Păunescu pays a visit the donation. The approval is granted but not without to the pirates, putting them on guard about the the knowledge of Police General Superintendent complaint filed against them. It is as clear as day that Nicolae Berechet, MAI State Secretary for logistics he takes no sample which might incriminate them. At during the PSD government. Hence, by this about the same time, policemen Luigi Sima and maneuver, the stolen software lands with a detour at Marian IoniŃă from the Fraud Investigations enter the a unit of the Ministry of Interior. Eight months later, scene and ask ORDA for a scientific and technical RSC sends a request to "Gerota” Hospital to expertise. This is carried out by the only expert on conclude a maintenance contract for the system copyright, Dan Dogaru, his conclusion being that the received as a gift, the monthly payment being set at analyzed software "contains significant parts copied 125.900.000 million ROL, including VAT from the ISIS.net program developed by OMNIS (approximately 3.800 euro). This proves that, in GROUP”. Intentionally or not, the expert does not reality, the Foundation has donated to the hospital mention also the conclusions regarding the flagrant the monthly obligation to pay RSC hundreds of breach of copyright, thus making the report millions RON. incomplete and challengeable.
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The file reaches prosecutor Nicoleta Bulgaru computers experts and chooses no one else but from the Bucharest Court, who comes from Professor tefan Stăncescu, from the Faculty of ConstanŃa and is famous for the abusive Electronics, a computer specialist, but not a software investigations carried out with Captain Grigore specialist. The fact that RSC pays for the expertise Pe terău. The two have been under criminal tells a lot about this strange choice as the appointed investigation for at least four criminal prosecutions expert is a computer and not a software specialist. for various acts of corruption, the policeman being Consequently, OMNIS legally appoints an expert eventually thrown out of the system. Instead, Bulgaru hand, Dumitru Galani, a software specialist and was appointed prosecutor at the Bucharest Court, accused Drago tefan Săracu does the same (by which proves that her connections have been more calling a representative of Microsoft – Ed.). influent than the police captain`s. Criminal Investigation Reopened Expert Chosen by Looks Simultaneously, OMNIS continues to urge the Following ORDA chief inspector Păunescu`s acceptance of the samples taken prior to the warning, RSC withdraws from its website the amendment of the RSC website and ultimately the applications created based of the intelligence theft prosecutor has no other option but to comply with the and operates a number of substantial changes on law. Only that now a new trick is employed: the them. Under these circumstances, it was unlikely prosecutor approves the request of OMNIS before that notable resemblance would be found after a new the beginning of the expertise, but three months expertise, which is usually urgently demanded from pass until she communicates it to the representatives the prosecutor handling the case. At the same time, of the injured party. Thus, the expertise was carried by two orders, Nicoleta Bulgaru acquits the out on the samples altered by RSC following the defendants, concluding that there is no software warning received from ORDA Inspector Adrian piracy. And, on the top of it, she also draws Păunescu. conclusions on copyright matters on which she is the Following that, although expert Galani reaches least competent. But what is even worse is that she diametrically opposing conclusions, Professor rejects the samples taken by OMNIS from the RSC Stăncescu unlawfully refuses to place in his report website and opposes their recovery from the Galani`s different opinions on the matter. This being beneficiaries who have purchased the stolen the case, Galani realizes that he has to prepare his programs. Thus, the expertise is conducted on the own technical expertise report, which he submits to newly changed data, casually offered by the RSC the prosecution file. Moreover, the same Stăncescu representatives. draws conclusions about copyright without having Police Superintendent Florin Mincă is required any expertise or any quality in this field as the to find an expert. He unlawfully demands a list of all
170 MICROSOFT THE GUARDIAN ANGEL - UM 0666 171 experts of ORDA are the only ones in Romania who Arguments have such prerogatives. On November 27, 2006, following the complaint In 2001, RSC SRL had only one employee, in filed with the Bucharest Court regarding the judicial 2002 two employees, while, as compared to the frame up instrumented by representatives of ORDA same period, OMNIS had 40, then 45 employees, and RSC, prosecutor Bulgaru, policeman Mincă and many of them working on the ISIS.net software since expert Stăncescu, the court orders the annulment of 1990. Under these circumsntances, the so called all orders unlawfully issued by Nicoleta Bulgaru, the honorable achievements of RCS should make even reopening of the criminal investigation and an Bill Gates jealous, who would not even dream of expertise on intellectual property. RSC files an such a performance. RCS has repeatedly tried to appeal, which is still on trial today. justify the theft, claiming that, just like OMNIS, it had used Microsoft technology acquired from the Galani Report Internet. This is a big fat lie. Proof of these allegations is the fact that the intelligence pirates After numerous tests, expert Galani reaches could never exactly name the source, and thus the following conclusions: dismiss any charges brought against them. “ It is impossible to identically and 100% reproduce from memory 4.884 lines while Utmost Coincidence maintaining specific elements of the OMNIS GROUP’s own footprint, including the programming Chief Commissioner Adrian Murea, whom we and spelling mistakes. (But even so, the legal owner called Dr. Death, works as a surgeon at the MAI of these code lines is the company, and no its "Gerota" Hospital that has been using pirated employee – Ed.) software seemingly received as a gift. He is the The only way in which the set of programs / surgeon who used the identity of two of his dying functions of the ISIS.net system could be found in patients in real estate frauds. One of these RSC applications, 100% identically assumed, is to supposedly sold him the house on 47 Barbu physically copy them from the OMNIS server on an Delavrancea Street which incredibly! belongs to external support and to transfer them into the RSC Drago Ri canu, the owner of OMNIS GROUP. As a applications. conclusion, Murea has stolen the property legally None of the RCS applications recompiled bought by him with bank instruments and the without the set of programs / functions being 100% hospital uses software that has been stolen from copied does not work, cannot be accessed and is not him. Utmost coincidence, both operations took place visible on the Internet. " during the same period of 2003. The second dying patient was used by Dr. Death to sell the house located on 75 Emanoil Porumbaru Street, based on
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Annex 6
Other executioners of the Romanian People
Tudor Postelnicu, General, Head of the Securitate, Minister of Interior and member of the Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party become notable due to the suppression in blood of the miners` strike of 1977. For all the crimes committed in the service of the communist regime, he has received only seven years in prison;
Iulian Vlad, Securitate General, sentenced for the atrocities committed during the events in Timi oara in 1989 was sentenced to 25 years in prison, of which he executed less than four in Jilava prison, and was released on December 31, 1993 by a court decision. At the time of the events of December 1989 he was Head of the Secret Police;
Ion Mihai Pacepa, Securitate General, Foreign Intelligence Department Deputy, fled to the U.S. in 1978, where he applied for political asylum;
Alexandru Nicolschi (born Boris Grunberg), Securitate General, fought for the elimination of the elements “hostile” to the communist regime, becoming notable by the annihilation of the group led
174 MICROSOFT THE GUARDIAN ANGEL - UM 0666 175 by Ana Pauker and the " Pite ti Experiment", by the Ion VinŃe (born Janos Vincze), Securitate reeducation of political dissidents through beatings General and Minister on several occasions; and torture. With the support of NKVD, he led the Mobile Squad up to 1948, after which the structure Neagu Cosma, Securitate General, became the Romanian Securitate; commander of the school in Băneasa, reactivated by Virgil Măgureanu after the establishment of the SRI. Vladimir Mazuru (born Wladimir Mazurow), Securitate General, infiltrated by the NKVD into the Other not less important torturers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs; totalitarian regime in those years: Ady Ladislau (later Alexandru Mure an), Attorney General Augustin Mihail (Mi u) Dulgheru (born Mi u Alexa (a Romanian version of Vî inski) Emil Dulbergher), a.k.a. "the Emperor", Securitate Bodnăra (Soviet spy), Liuba Chi inevschi, Iosif colonel, he served in the Mobile Squad within the Chi inevschi (born Roitman) Vasile Ciolpan, Dumitru General Directorate of Police, specializing in the Coliu (born Dimităr Colev), col. Gheorghe Crăciun, deportation of Saxons and Swabians in forced labor Ion Dincă, Tamara Dobrin, Teohari Georgescu, camps in the USSR and the annihilation of the anti Nicolae Moromete, Ana Pauker, Dumitru Popescu, Soviet resistance. He was the main responsible for Valter Roman (born Ernö Neuländer), Ion Stănescu the tortures and crimes which occurred in the cellars (born Silaghi), Ioan oltuŃiu and many others. of the People`s Securitate during its first four years of activity;
Alexandru Drăghici, former Colonel General, Minister of Interior and of State Security, became notable by the inhumane treatment of the political prisoners and the death sentences ordered with an extreme cynicism. Together with Teohari Georgescu and Iosif RangheŃ, as a public prosecutor working in the Court of the People, he sent to death hundreds of opponents of communism. Because he was president of the Grand National Assembly between 28 December 1949 and 26 January 1950, his portrait is displayed as a sign of tribute on the walls of the Chamber of Deputies, along with other personalities who served as Presidents of the Romanian Parliament;
Annex 7
Heads of the Intelligence Services from 1924 to date
April 12, 1924 to September 13, 1940 Mihail Moruzov Head of the Secret Intelligence Service; November 12, 1940 to August 23, 1944 – Eugen Cristescu – Head of the Secret Intelligence Service; August 25, 1944 to September 20, 1944 Victor Siminel – Director of SSI (Special Intelligence Service); September 25, 1944 to December 25, 1944 Ioan Lissievici – General Director of SSI; December 25, 1944 to March 6, 1945 Gheorghe Săvoiu General Director of SSI; March 12, 1945 to July 12, 1945 Nicolae Stănescu General Director of SSI; July 12, 1945 January 1947 Lucian Stupinianu General Director of SSI; January 1947 April 1951 Serghei Nicolau General Director of SSI and between April 1951 March 1954 Head of Foreign Intelligence Directorate A within DGSS (General Directorate of State Security);
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March 1954 December 16, 1955 Vasile July 20 to October 4, 2006 Florin Coldea Vâlcu Head of the Foreign Intelligence Directorate (Interim); within DGSS; October 4, 2006 present George Cristian December 16, 1955 to July 15, 1959 – Mihai Maior. Gavriliuc Head of Directorate I of the DGSS; 1959 1963 Nicolae Doicaru Head of Directors of the SPP (Protection and Guard Foreign Intelligence Directorate I within DGSS. 1963 Service former Security Division V, MU 0666) 1972, Deputy Interior Minister and Head of the General Directorate of Foreign Intelligence within May 7, 1990 to November 21, 1996 Major CSS (State Security Council). 1972 4 March, 1978, General Dumitru Iliescu; First Deputy Interior Minister and Head of the December 18, 1996 to April 29, 1998 Foreign Intelligence Department of CSS; Colonel Nicu Anghel; June October 1978 Alexandru Dănescu – May 4, 1998 to January 21, 1999 General Head of the DEI within DSS; Brigadier (General Commissioner) Anghel October 15, 1978 to April 22, 1980 Romus Andreescu; Dima Interior Minister and Head of the CIE (Centre March 18, 1999 to December 28, 2000 – for Foreign Intelligence) of DSS; General Lieutenant Neculai Stoina; April 22, 1980 to November 26, 1984 Nicolae December 28, 2000 to December 7, 2005 Ple iŃă First Deputy Interior Minister and Head of General Lieutenant Gabriel Naghi; the CIE within the DSS; December 7, 2005 present General 1987 1989 Iulian Vlad Head of DSS; Lieutenant Lucian PahonŃu. December 1, 1984 to January 6, 1990 Aristotel Stamatoiu Deputy Interior Minister, Head Directors of the SIE (Foreign Intelligence of the CIE within the DSS. Service)
Directors of the SRI (Romanian Intelligence 18 January to 13 December, 1990 – General Service) Mihai Caraman Deputy Minister of National Defense and December 13, 1990 April 9, 1992 May 26, 1990 to April 25, 1997 Virgil SIE Director; Măgureanu; April 9, 1992 to July 30, 1997 – General Ioan May 30, 1997 December 2000 Costin Talpe ; Georgescu; July 30, 1997 to February 1, 2001 Cătălin February 7, 2001 to July 20, 2006 Alexandru Harnagea; Radu Timofte; February 12, 2001 to July 20, 2005 Gheorghe Fulga;
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July 20 to October 4, 2006 – General Silviu Predoiu; October 4, 2006 to March 19, 2007 Claudiu TABLE OF CONTENTS Elvis Săftoiu; March 19 to December 5, 2007 General Silviu Predoiu; PREFACE December 5, 2007 present Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu. Last Minute
CHAPTER I Illegal Practices by the MICROSOFT Giant ...... 13 The Red Plague of the East...... 15 A High Tech terrorist...... 17 What Kind of Stability Are We Talking About? ...... 18
CHAPTER II The Vlădescu Conspiracy...... 21
CHAPTER III Old and New Securitate Members ...... 29 The New Oligarchy ...... 32 The Network of Descendants and Continuators of the Late Regime ...... 34 Călin Popescu Tăriceanu...... 34 Eugen Nicolaescu...... 35 Sebastian Teodor Gheorghe Vlădescu...... 37 Agrippa Ionescu...... 42 Ghizela Vass – Bogdan Olteanu...... 43 Other interesting characters...... 45
CHAPTER IV A Case Study...... 47 X Raying the Disappearance of Certain European Funds...... 50 Jonathan Scheele, a Pontius Pilates, yet Lesser ... 55
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CHAPTER V Ovidiu Soare Network on the Romanian Intelligence Who Is Handling Romanian Finances...... 57 Services...... 110 Clarifications ...... 58 Prahova Network ...... 111 More Millions of EUR, a Present for the RSC ...... 63 First Mineriad, set by the state...... 112 Out Dear and Beloved Justice ...... 63 MICROSOFT, Protector of the Scam...... 66 CHAPTER XI Securitate Oligarchy Refuses to Surrender...... 117 CHAPTER VI "Romania will Remain an Underdeveloped Country" Magistrates Failing the Test of Logic and ...... 118 Commonsense...... 69 Communist regime – “Illegitimate and Criminal" .. 120 Judge Costiniu, Better than ORDA Experts ...... 70 The Monica Macovei “Trouble” ...... 121 Death solves all problems — no man, no problem CHAPTER VII Joseph Stalin ...... 122 Reality on the Edge ...... 75 Do Europeans even want to fight high level Russification of the Romanian Army...... 76 corruption?...... 124 Pantiu a, the Assassin Buried with Military Honors78 How many Securitate agents per European? ...... 126 Ple iŃă, the Secret Police Brute ...... 80 A matter of mentality...... 127 Glorious Past as Secret Police Agent ...... 82 Criminals are afflicted people. Assassins are trained Butcher in the Ministry of Interior ...... 83 people...... 129 Petea, Champion of Political Frame ups...... 84 ANNEXES CHAPTER VIII Officers of Death...... 87 Annex 1 General Caraman Decorated by the NKVD ...... 88 Microsoft blacklists...... 135 SMERSH, the Midwife of the Securitate ...... 90 Annex 2 CHAPTER IX March 31, 2009 – ECIS Report:...... 137 The Odious MU 0666...... 95 Securitate is not Dead. Securitate Changes ...... 96 Annex 3 Secret Police Funds for Crime. "Haiducu" Affair .... 97 Minister of Health worked for arms dealer Shimon Training Reliable Agents...... 99 Naor...... 145
CHAPTER X Annex 4 Voicu Network on Justice...... 105 Vlădescu, Minister of Finance, Exported Arms to Africa...... 149
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Annex 5 Dan COSTE – Investigation Reporter Dr. Death`s Scams ...... 155 Piracy within the Ministry of Interior and the Professional experience: 20 yrs investigation Romanian Intelligence Service ...... 163 journalism, analysis, news. Written media journalist after 1990, Member of the International Federation of Annex 6 Journalists, Founding Member of the Association of Other executioners of the Romanian People ...... 173 Journalists Class ’90.
Annex 7 1990 – main editor “Dreptatea”; Heads of the Intelligence Services from 1924 to date 1991 – editor “Romania Libera”; 1992 – editor “Tinerama”; ...... 177 2002 – special reporter ‘Ziua”; 2008 – chief editor social dept. “UNU”; 2009 – special investigation reporter “Cotidianul”; 2010 – investigation media freelancer.
Collaborator and coordinator of “Timpul Capitalei”, “Realitatea Românească”, “Bucure ti”, “SenzaŃii Tari”, “Ea despre Ea”, “Ion Cristoiu i Max Bănush vă recomandă”, “Curentul”, “Revista culinară”, “Povestiri pentru Acasă”, “Evenimentul zilei”, “România Express”, “Reporter special”, "Incisiv de Prahova”, radio “Tinerama”, "Q Mamagazine", "Ziarul de InvestigaŃii", "AgenŃia de InvestigaŃii Media", etc.
Author of more than 60 detective and adventure novels, dozens of educational brochures, “Counterfeiting in Romania” (coordinator, 3 volumes), “The Consumers’ Guide”, “Cursed Flight – Kill in the Name of Allah!” (first book published after 9.11.2001 in Romania), etc.
OLAF training in Brussels, February 2007.