tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-166041152024-03-13T08:20:49.363-07:00OClauncherA Look into a World of Crimepaul dudehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05028183388179052151noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16604115.post-1159378344527470812006-09-27T09:57:00.012-07:002007-11-14T06:44:16.807-08:00Dirty money from the Isle of ManDirty money from the Isle of Man By Paul Cristian Radu In the shadow of some very famous Romanian businesses there are various Russian oligarchs, hidden behind some off-shore companies. All too often, these companies are involved in transactions with Russian criminal groups, in money laundering, drug traffic or blackmail. Our story begins on a small island in the Irish Sea, between Great paul dudehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05028183388179052151noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16604115.post-1133431552231991192005-12-01T02:04:00.000-08:002005-12-01T02:05:52.266-08:00International Children AdoptionSan Antonio Express-News (Texas)Concern isgrowing over poorly regulated foreign adoption programs.BYLINE: Paul Cristian Radu Adoption Services Associates director Linda Zuflacht says in her complaint that adoptive couples spend $10,000 to $12,000 in countries where they are adopting children to cover legal work, government fees, drivers, translators and gifts to orphanages. On top of that, formerpaul dudehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05028183388179052151noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16604115.post-1127318052968410862005-09-21T08:50:00.001-07:002005-09-21T08:54:12.976-07:00The Muzzling of the Romanian MediaWednesday, October 2nd 2002: The Muzzling of the Romanian MediaCommercial and political pressures have left Romanian journalism at its lowest ebb since the demise of communism.RCJIWhen journalist Silvia Vranceanu began investigating a tycoon from the ruling Social Democratic Party, PSD, in the north-east town of Focsani, local powerbrokers warned her to stop. Vranceanu, a local correspondent for paul dudehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05028183388179052151noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16604115.post-1127317956778979112005-09-21T08:50:00.000-07:002005-09-21T08:52:36.793-07:00Freedom at Midnight-Rescuing Sex SlavesFriday, January 10th 2003: Freedom at Midnight: Human Trafficking in RomaniaUndercover investigation reveals how young girls are being beaten, abused and sold for a few hundred of dollars in Bucharest’s back streets.Paul Cristian Radu paulradu@crji.org"Can I be sure you're not giving me back to them?" Diana whispered from the backseat of the car. "I’m scared.”The trembling figure, huddled in a paul dudehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05028183388179052151noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16604115.post-1127317726757086962005-09-21T08:45:00.000-07:002005-09-21T08:48:46.770-07:00The RAFO CONNECTIONWednesday, October 8 2003: Organized White Collar CrimeThe RAFO CONNECTIONBy Paul Cristian Radu (paulradu@crji.org) and Valentin ZaschieviciThe collapse of the BANCOREX, one of the leading Romanian state owned banks, in the late ‘90s, meant over 2 billion US dollars losses for the pockets of the Romanian citizens. Nowadays, the same people, the experts that led BANCOREX to disaster, regrouped andpaul dudehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05028183388179052151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16604115.post-1126424661863071102005-09-11T00:43:00.000-07:002005-09-11T00:44:21.873-07:00Private InterestsBy Paul Cristian RaduWASHINGTON, January 25, 2005 — Iosif Dan, a top advisor to Romanian President Ion Iliescu, explained in a recent interview with the Center for Public Integrity why he had accepted money from a petroleum company vying for a piece of the country's oil-privatization action."I have taken some money from these boys, as a loan, and this seems perfectly okay to me," Dan said. "paul dudehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05028183388179052151noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16604115.post-1126424454832186352005-09-11T00:39:00.000-07:002005-09-11T00:40:54.840-07:00The Energy MogulsPaul Cristian Radu - paulradu@crji.orgLondon. February 2005. The British Serious Fraud Office (SFO) inspects the headquarters of the London companies EFT and GML and confiscates some of their documents. In the meantime, the SFO investigation also begins in Luxembourg and Bosnia-Hercegovina.Bucharest. December 2002: The Romanian Government closes a contract with the GML company for recovering paul dudehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05028183388179052151noreply@blogger.com1