Cîţu accuses the city council of the capital of not paying for thermal energy, although it received the subsidy from the budget. “The mayor denied us access to the City Hall”

Florin Cîţu announced on Monday that while the capital city council had income and received money from the budget for the payment of subsidies for thermal energy and transport, the money was not used for this purpose and payments were only partially made.

“The income of the City Council of the capital in 2020 is around 3.5 billion lei. The income in September is almost 99%. There are two important costs: the subsidy for thermal energy and the subsidy for public transport. The budget had these amounts in quarters. But if we look at the execution, thermal energy was paid only 331 million lei until September, of the 935 million for the whole year, that is, a third. For public transport, 624 million of the 1,500 million were paid ”Cîţu announced.

The Minister of Finance said that, in the debt, the situation looks bad and “clearly shows a bad management of public money.”

The Bucharest City Council has debts with ELCEN and RADET of 837 million lei. The Bucharest City Council has debts with ELCEN and RADET of 837 million lei. On the credit table against ELCEN there are another 1,700 million lei and against RADET another 3,800 million lei.

“Payment of the energy subsidy. We made sure that the funds were allocated, that the money did not go where it had to go. By ordinance 135/2020, one billion lei was allocated, this money could be used by the Bucharest City Council to pay arrears. At the beginning of the year, money was allocated for the payment of subsidies. The grant payment was not made. Here is the problem, where did this money go and to whom? I promise you, we will find where this money ended up. ” Cîţu said.

Florin Cîţu announced that controls will be carried out in all public institutions, because there are companies that have not had an analysis of the economic and financial situation carried out in the last 10-15 years, including the Bucharest City Council.

The Minister of Finance affirms that the Financial Economic Inspection was under control at the Bucharest City Council between January 30, 2020 and March 10, 2020; however, the control was suspended on March 11, 2020, when it was already The ministry team was not allowed access to the mayor’s office. in view of the order of the mayor general.

“The suspension of certain activities that involve interaction with people outside the Bucharest City Hall was ordered. We were not even allowed to do this control remotely. The laptops of the employees of the Ministry of Finance were seized for a time in the mayor’s office and we recovered them later, ”Cîţu accused.

Cîţu also listed a number of irregularities found in PMB that could represent crimes.

“Commitment of local budget expenses to the public heat supply service above the limit of approved budget credits, which constitutes a crime. Payment without legal basis from public funds in 2018 and 2019 of some loans induced by 80 million lei. Payment without legal basis of public funds of 1.4 million lei representing the value of some service contracts. It is a festival, ONE YEAR FOR EURO 2020 ”, said the Minister of Finance.