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Reporter: In 2011, the objective of the Office (ONPCSB) was to implement the Action Plan for the application of the National Strategy for Preventing and Fighting Money Laundering.

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Romania contribute 40% to the creation of added value, as opposed to 60%, which is the average of the European Union, said Aurel Şaramet, the president of the National Fund for the Guarantee of SME Loans...

The issue of speculation on the stock of "Roşia Montană Gold Corporation" on the Toronto Stock Exchange is five years old, even though the issue of large-scale scams is more than 125 years old; sometime around 2007, Allen Hill, the...

We can't actually speak about a decrease in the contraband phenomenon, as the cigarettes with Ukrainian stamps can be found in all the markets of the county of Satu Mare, said PSD senator Valer Marian, the vice-president of the Commission for...

The Romanian Banking Association (ARB) wants the postponement of the deadline by which the commercial banks would have to install TV screens inside their branches, to allow the text concerning the customers' rights, which will be displayed on...

The Romanian authorities have begun moving swiftly in the privatization of "Oltchim", immediately after receiving the agreement of the European Commission for the conversion of the receivables of the AVAS into stock.

The satisfaction that PM Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu verbally crushed Mihai Gâdea, during the interview he gave him two days ago, on Antena 3, permeates the pro-government press and the internet.

The decision of the European Commission through which, the conversion into stock of the debts of "Oltchim" towards the AVAS was approved last week, will help accelerate the privatization of the plant, according to market sources.

The legal market for cigarettes had a positive evolution over the last two years, mostly due to the dramatic drop in the illicit trade, said Adrian Popa, Corporate & Regulatory Affairs Director of cigarette maker "British American...

Having run out of shares in the Proprietatea Fund, and being pressured by the European Court of Human Rights to speed up the process for the compensation of the former asset owners whose assets were abusively seized by the Communist regime, the...

Reporter: You recently visited Morocco. What was the goal of this visit?

According to market sources, in today's meeting, the government will decide on the price at which the 15% stake in "Transelectrica" (symbol: TEL), will be sold.

The tobacco market is still a troubled segment, since the level of smuggling has once again increased towards the end of last year.

The shareholders of the "Oltchim" chemical plant (symbol: OLT) yesterday approved "the initiation of the selection procedure for the selection of new non-executive and/or executive directors", in compliance with the dispositions...

Cristina Chiriac, the vice-president of the AVAS, granted us an interview in which she commented on the implications of the decision of the European Commission to approve the conversion into stock of the debt of Oltchim towards the AVAS.

The Bucharest Stock Exchange finally deigned to suspend trading in the shares of Oltchim, but only did so Friday morning.

Petre Pavel Szel, the president of "SAI Muntenia", the company which manages SIF4 "Muntenia", says he is relatively pleased with the results achieved by SIF4 last year, given the state of the economy.

Russia's 20-year energy strategy, which concerns the 2010 - 2030 period and was approved in November 2009, stipulates that the export of energy resources will remain the country's engine for growth, but its impact on the economy will...

The Bucharest Stock Exchange and "Oltchim" did not make sure that the stock market investors would be fairly informed about the most important news in the market which concerned "Oltchim", over the last few years - obtaining the...

After almost four years of investigations, the European Commission has approved the conversion of the debt of "Oltchim" towards the AVAS (ed. note: Authority for State Assets Recovery).

Franklin Templeton, which nobody knows if is still the manager of the Proprietatea Fund (FP) or not, has moved on to radical actions, of selling the shares which the Proprietatea Fund owns in thirteen companies in the energy sector.

The success of the offering through which the Romanian state will sell 15% of "Transelectrica" on the Stock Market depends on the granting of a discount of 10-15%, Lucian Anghel, the president of the Bucharest Stock Exchange thinks.

Equity market players are clamoring for a discount of 10% to 20% on the offer for the sale of 15% of the shares of "Trans­electrica", and the seller, the Romanian state, needs to decide very soon whether it will give in to that pressure.

The representatives of the two domestic exchanges, of Bucharest and Sibiu, told us that they will comply with the European directives, after Gabriela Anghelache, the president of the National Securities Commission (CNVM), told us, in an...

The exploitation of the natural gas deposit in the Black Sea, announced two weeks ago by "OMV Petrom" and "ExxonMobil", may begin in 2015-2017, president Traian Băsescu said yesterday.

Valentin Ionescu, the former managing director of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB), considers that, in the case of the secondary offering of "Transelectrica", a discount of 15% compared to the market price is welcome.

Last week, the United Arab Emirates (EAU) announced their bid for the World Expo 2020 fair at the Dubai International Airport.

Investments in Romania's economy last year amounted to 64.529 billion lei, up 9.2% over the previous year, according to a press release of the National Statistics Institute (INS).

The actions to fight contraband seem to have entered a certain "relaxation" stage, Gabriel Berca, the minister of Administration and Internal Affairs said:

This year, "Philip Morris" Romania will invest 1 million Euros in the modernization of the plant it owns in Otopeni, with the investment consisting in the installation of a new, more energy efficient cooling unit, said Andrei Vasilescu,...

The capital market watchdog yesterday levied fines, after reviewing the trades involving structured products issued by "Erste Bank", for which the Romanian Commercial Bank (BCR) was a liquidity provider.

Reporter: Last year, in a different interview, you told us that a Committee comprising representatives of several ministries would be created, to coordinate the activities in the tobacco sector.

Disregarding the lawyers' claims that that it has no right to manage the Proprietatea Fund, "Franklin Templeton" is minding its own business, summoning a General Shareholder Meeting, on April 4th, for discussing the proposals it has...

The black market for cigarettes fell 2% in January compared to November last year, from 15% to 13%, according to the latest data provided by "Novel Research".

Last year, the employees of the border police impounded for the purpose of confiscation - by themselves or in cooperation with several other institutions - a number of approximately 9.26 million packs of cigarettes, worth about 50.5 million lei.

Interview with Tom Holst, the head of Chevron for Romania

More than half of the volume of energy sold by "Hidroelectrica" last year was based on direct contracts with private providers, the representatives of the company told us, in an interview.

After a month of hard winter, like we've never had in the last 50 years, spring shows its first signs.

Oil prices fell yesterday after rising for 8 days straight, on the London and New York Exchanges, halting last week's significant rise.

Swiss company Günthart AG, specializing in the production of chocolate, is assessing the Romanian market, with a view of opening a plant in Romania as well.