The Romanian Prime Minister’s control body has undergone controls in all public institutions to check the IT programs acquired by state authorities in the last three years, reports local Profit.ro.

The controls started after the EU Funds Minister Cristian Ghinea recently notified the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) about a software used for the management of environment funds, which had been acquired for EUR 28 million but was not functional. Ghinea asked prosecutors to verify how the system had been bought, showing that the association that won the contract included the company One Expert owned by the Romanian investor Sebastian Ghita, investigated for various charges of corruption.

Before notifying DNA, Cristian Ghinea sent a letter to the former Prime Minister Victor Ponta saying that the public administration had poor IT systems and that many public employees blamed Sebastian Ghita, whose firms had been providing software to public authorities for many years. He ended the letter by saying that “time has come to speak up.”

Ghita said in reply that he didn’t know the company One Expert and he had no contracts with the EU Funds Ministry. He threatened to sue Ghinea.

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