New information has been revealed in Germany about the EADS case, where the name of Elena Udrea and her involvement in the file first appeared. Vlad Georgescu, the journalist who made huge revelations about the case in the German media, had a telephone intervention during the "Daily Summary" show by Mihai Gadea.
The EADS business is huge, according to the journalist’s descriptions, top politicians from both Romania and Germany are involved in this affair.
Vlad Georgescu has spoken about the dimension of this business deal but also about the link between what the prosecutors have done in Germany over the past few days related to the searches performed and the onset of the criminal investigation in the case.
"The EADS case in Germany is the biggest corruption case at state level, because the company is not a private one but one belonging to the German state.
"We are talking about a corruption case for which huge amounts of money have been paid as bribe, from public funds ", the journalist added.
"I did not act alone. We are a whole network in Romania, the USA, Germany working on this case, but others too. There are people who have just had enough of state level corruption cases".
Since he could not disclose the names of the people involved, the journalist added that "bribe and money have gotten to the very top of the Romanian and German politics"
"Bribes were paid not with money in suitcase, but by some semi-legal acts, or covered, by positions received later, consulting fees that were paid and were taxed. A system was developed which seen from a far seems legal, but it is a money laundering scheme that works for EADS, and in many other cases, " Vlad Georgescu added.
"We are wondering why the money laundering office has not discovered the money flow in the EADS case, in the real estate mob case. Our question is: why the EU office do not work in Romania".
"The contract was from the beginning, from the point of view of the German law, a rather strange one. (...) There were interests in making this agreement as a reward for Romania's EU accession, the irony of it being that Romania did not have money to pay. It had to pay this contract. The system was fraudulent from A to Z, in both phases. "
The Munich prosecutor office made several searches at Airbus group headquarters because of corruption allegations regarding contracts worth nearly 3 billion with Romania and Saudi Arabia.
It is about the border security agreement concluded with EADS, which in the meantime has been taken over by Airbus.