CORRUPTION CONTEXT AT A GLOBAL AND EUROPEAN UNION LEVEL

 

Context: Governments collect 30% of the GDP as taxes, and 40%-50% of that is spent on public procurement.

 

Yearly, +$ 1.5 trillion is lost globally to public procurement fraud from which EUR 200 billion in the European Union.

 

In addition to the public procurement fraud, another +$1 trillion is lost due to tax dodging schemes operated by the big four consultants and auditor’s cartel and their multinational clientele, from which EUR 200 billion is extracted from the E.U. economies.

 

Tax dodging practiced by the multinational consultancies are considered “Illicit Financial Flows” under the new UN standards (Sustainable Development Goal indicator 16.4.1).

 

The consequences: Millions of people are deprived of fair economic opportunities, adequate standard of living, and many key domains are under-financed such as: education, pensions, security, healthcare, clean water initiatives, and social and transport infrastructure necessary for living fulfilling lives.

 

Professional enablers of corruption, fraud and money laundering (bankers, Big Four accounting firms, consultants, auditors, and lawyers) are also financed by the EU institutions (by awarding them profitable contracts worth billions of euros).

This goes against the global pact for financial integrity for sustainable development, against the values for integrity such as:  accountability, transparency, legitimacy and fairness, against the Convention against Corruption and human rights detailed below.

The issue isn't the lack of EU funding for member states. The problem is that 50% of these funds end up with organized criminal groups (white-collar mafia) who exploit them for illicit gains.

 

The EU has failed to invest in addressing pre-bidding corruption: discriminatory criteria, tailored specifications that prioritize turnover (often built on corrupt practices, including from the Big four consultants who captured the EU institutions and maintain corrupt, exploitatitive systems and human rights abuse), and a lack of focus on project quality, impact, and the ultimate beneficiaries.

 

This perpetuates a system lacking in meritocracy.

 

Damages Caused by Inadequate Due Diligence in EU Contract  Criteria and Awards

1. Damages to Honest Entrepreneurs and Professionals (Pre-Award and Award Stages of Contracts)

• Discrimination: Ethical entrepreneurs and professionals who refuse to bribe are excluded from the market while organized crime groups win contracts.

• Financial Losses: Systemic corruption creates unfair competition, where bribery-driven awards prevent honest businesses from securing vital contracts. This leads to:

  • Direct revenue losses due to corrupt practices.

  • Business closures when ethical competitors cannot compete against bribe-paying entities.

  • Indirect losses when institutions mislead honest businesses into investing time and resources to draft tender technical offers for tender processes they don’t know are rigged.

• Lost Opportunities and Investments: When contracts aren't based on merit, honest entrepreneurs miss out on the chance to grow their businesses, generate jobs, and contribute to GDP growth. The stolen funds, often laundered and reinvested into criminal activities, further stifle the potential of legitimate Romanian capital. This constitutes an undermining of the national economy and a violation of human rights.

• Reputational and Emotional Damages: After being shut out by corruption, honest firms and individuals who expose such activity face:

  • Defamation campaigns by corrupt networks and their protectors in government.

  • Blacklisting, discrediting, cybercrime, and threats.

This aims to discredit and silence those who expose wrongdoing.

2. Damages to the Population (Taxpayers) - Post-Project Implementation Stage – Quality Assessment/Acceptance of Deliverables (Works and Services)

• Subpar Deliverables: Corruptly awarded contracts often result in works or services that are significantly below expected quality or functionality. This is due to profiteering by companies that prioritize bribes over performance, potentially endangering lives.

• Safety Risks: Poorly executed projects can endanger lives as funds are diverted and standards ignored.

• Inflated Costs - Wasted Investment - Economic Damage: Taxpayers pay full price for services worth significantly less. This represents significant economic loss and a betrayal of public trust. The funds lost to corruption could be vital for social programs or infrastructure development. Instead, the funds intended for public benefit are wasted, enriching criminal networks and starving honest businesses of the resources to grow and innovate.

 

 

CORRUPTION CONTEXT IN ROMANIA

 

Capitalism that thrives on unfair competition and corruption isn’t capitalism; it’s exploitation.

This is the capitalism that exists in Romania - a country colonized through the bribing of its (fake) “elite”.

 

High-level corruption (uninvestigated and unpunished) has turned the country into a colony.  (please see the chapter “Mechanisms Of Corruption” in this document for more details)

 

In such a system, where unfair practices and corruption are the pillars, genuine competition and economic fairness become casualties.

 

This distorted version of capitalism undermines the principles of a free and equitable market, perpetuating a cycle of exploitation and injustice.

 

 

If a government collects taxes from its citizens and then uses that money to finance state contracts awarded to organised criminal groups through public procurement fraud initiated and protected by corrupt politicians and bureaucrats, corrupt fake elite, and a captured justice systems then those taxes are considered embezzled money from the population. 

 

This is because the government has a legal obligation to use tax money for the benefit of the public, not for its own enrichment or to support criminal activity. 

When a government uses tax money in this way, it is essentially stealing from its citizens.

 

I repeat. When a government is corrupt and uses tax money to finance organized crime, it is essentially stealing from the population. Taxes are collected from the people to fund public services, such as education, healthcare, and infrastructure. 

 

When these funds are redirected to organized crime who built their capital on sentenced corruption offences and now provide services and products only at 10% value and quality of the 100% money they receive in state contracts obtained through public procurement frauds, those money are diverted from their intended purpose and instead used to support illegal activities, which can harm society in many ways.

 

The Romanian National Agency for Fiscal Administration (ANAF) collects 29% of Romania's GDP in taxes. 

 

Between 14% and 19% of the GDP (and half of the collected taxes) goes to public procurement  (half of which falls prey to public procurement fraud). 

 

The money end up in the accounts of corrupt people who have become each millionaires from fraudulent public procurement. 

 

This means 10 to 15 billions every year, 350 billions in 33 years, are money robbed from the population and redistributed in the bank accounts of organised criminal groups.

 

In addition to this theft, for each €19 million robbed through projects / state contracts obtained through public procurement frauds, they leave behind dysfunctional systems that are causing other €billion damages to the population (i.e, the health system that does not work, the IT infrastructure of the fiscal agency who doesn’t archive fiscal declarations causing additional dozens of hours of admin work for entrepreneurs, in a context where time means money).

 

The next issue is that this capital (usually over EUR 200.000 euro per person) obtained through public procurement fraud in state contracts funded with  money robbed from the population is placed, layered, and integrated in the economy in new business that launder the criminal proceed and create unfair competition to honest entrepreneurs and businesses.

 

 

LACK OF RESOURCES FOR CIVIL SOCIETY TO DEFEND THEIR RIGHTS

 

22.000 employees from the fiscal agency take money from the population (through taxes), keep some money in their bank accounts (as salaries), without assuming the accountability and responsibility for the fact those money, through public procurement frauds and discriminatory and fraudulent state aids and grants, are redistributed in the accounts of corrupts and organised criminal groups.

 

These officials demand paperwork from the victims of their schemes (from the people they rob, especially for the cases where the taxes go beyond the level the individual can afford an adequate standard of living). In contrast, the population lack the resources to hold the collectors accountable for how public funds are spent.

The National Anticorruption Agency has only 900 employees, State Audit Authority 900 employees,

 

Issue: Lack of representation: The population lacks a comparable force to investigate the $200 billion public procurement frauds and theft of natural resources, unlike the vast apparatus that works against the interests of the people.

Conclusion: We need a system where 22,000 citizens become watchdogs, not just 900 employees in an institution under political capture.

Systematic Corruption in Public Procurement

Corruption in procurement involves lasting networks of corrupt actors within and outside of government, dominating entire markets.

Money from corrupt procurement sustains political parties and keeps corrupt elites in power.

Controlled institutions and regulations are designed to launder illicit money while enriching and protecting the powerful.

Systemic corruption fuels illicit trade, hinders equitable wealth distribution, stagnates development, and can even destabilize entire countries.

 

For the money they are robbing from the population they are requesting justification documents instead of the population to request extensive data for each euro these people spend on their cornies and corrupt contractors who have received more money than they deserve, mor money than their results which are at 10% of the 100% money they received from the population.

 

The population does not have 22.000 represenattives to evaluate how those money are spent and to defend their rights. Not viceversa.

 

National Anti-corruption agency has 900 employees, the State Audit Institution has 900 employees and all are under political patronage. The other public institutions are campletly captured, meaning they are working to harrass the robbed population and protect the 50.000 thieves.

 

•Typology of corruption in Romania in public procurement:

Corruption in procurement takes place systematically via a network involving multiple firms and individuals both inside and outside of government. Corruption networks is strong and entrenched, lasting many years and involving the entire market for a good or service.

In these instances, corruption is systematic and is a function of the relationships among parties.

The money obtained through systematic relational corruption in public procurement fuels political parties and plays an essential role in financing politics.

In these situations, public procurement serves as a way for economic elites to capture contracts and public funds and for political elites to finance their continued power and authority.

Network domination of procurement is not exclusive to high-value national markets. It can be found at all levels where power and the authority to spend public money through procurement exist.

This allows the political actors to establish institutions and regulations that place them as gatekeepers responsible for ensuring that illicit proceeds go undetected through legitimate channels.

Also, in countries where patronage politics influence political relationships and interactions, these structures allow the proceeds of corruption and money laundering to flow through them.

Controlled and uncontrolled corruption can also occur between officials and corporations seeking to obtain benefits or procurement contracts.

their illegal supply chains. It is within these supply chains that corruption proceeds are used to further the development of illicit markets conducive to money laundering.

In the long run, these economic manipulations of the political institutions, legal and financial sectors can lead to potential state failure, where the state is unable to provide any security or services to its people.

Such economic environments are unable to distribute wealth equally nor drive innovation, investment, and reinvestment towards development finance. They lead to impoverished societies.

 

Why is important to act now and address these issues:

 

• Public procurement fraud (EUR 10 billions yearly) in Romania is the primary method through which organized crime groups maintain their control on power and wealth in Romania.

By manipulating public procurement processes, these groups are able to siphon off billions of euros from the public funds yearly, enriching themselves and naming their corrupt politicians in the Parliament, while depriving the Romanian people of essential services and infrastructure (decent investments in education, health, research conducted by top professionals and firms with Romanian (honest) capital, infrastructure, etc.). 

 

The priority should be cutting off the financing sources of these white-collar mafia networks that perpetuate this exploitation system through public procurement fraud (EUR 10 billion yearly) and the looting of state-owned companies and start recovering the EUR 800 billion that were lost through these fraudulent schemes and tax dodging by corporations in the past 34 years.

Tax dodging is considered “Illicit Financial Flows” under the new UN regulations (please see the evidence I structured in the attached table)

 

• The damage to the Romanian population is not merely limited to the millions of dollars these individuals steal from public funds.

 

The major issue is that the most corrupt and incompetent firms (who launder money from previous criminal proceeds and prosecuted corruption offences) are:

 - granted exclusive access to key strategic data and population’s private and confidential data (data is the new gold),

-  are the sole entities compensated for implementing highly strategic systems such as Balanced Scorecard and anti-corruption strategies. However, they design these systems with significant flaws and vulnerabilities in order to exploit them and inflict further billion-dollar damages upon the Romanian population. They leave behind these dysfunctional systems while simultaneously pressuring, lobbying, bribing, and extorting decision-makers to create requests for new dysfunctional systems that enrich the same mafia.

-  rob the rights of citizens to access detailed monthly reports related to the institutional performance and individual performance for everyone receiving more than EUR 5.000 gross revenue per month from public funds.

The reporting mechanisms in the public sector must mirror the rigorous standards imposed on entrepreneurs and freelancers, who are required to present comprehensive fiscal and financial documentation for the money that is being robbed from them.

 

 

The Ministry of Justice and Ministry of Interior, two institutions entrusted with upholding the law and combating corruption, have failed to provide transparent, relevant, and accurate performance reports (at institutional, team and individual level) regarding their public expenses, which are ultimately funded by money robbed from the population through taxes and by increasing the public debt per capita.

 

This lack of transparency in public reporting stems from the flawed implementation of strategic systems like Balanced Scorecard and anti-corruption strategies, which they developed with organized criminal groups who received millions of euros in public funds for disastrous results, causing billions of dollars in losses to the Romanian population.

In contrast, genuine experts from civil society have developed superior performance reporting systems at no cost to the taxpayer.

 

The choice of the Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Interior, and other key institutions to perpetuate the monopoly of organized criminal groups on strategic state contracts  highlights their complicity in perpetuating systemic corruption.

The money that was misused on these flawed systems must be redirected to the genuinely capable experts who can deliver meaningful results. Additionally, those responsible for this corruption must be held accountable and forced to compensate the Romanian people for the damage they have caused.

 

Moreover, the beneficiaries behind these companies don’t pass basic integrity due diligence checks.

 

 

• The shareholders of these incompetent and corrupt firms have enriched themselves, each of them making millions of euro per year at the expense of the Romanian people, while the dysfunctional systems they left behind caused EUR billion in widespread damage to the Romanian population, including loss of life.

 

• The systemic corruption perpetuated by these firms (alongside numerous other crony and politically connected corrupt firms) has crippled the public sector and impoverished the nation.

 

• The shareholders of these companies and corrupt bureaucrats have obtained from public funds:

more money than they deserve, more than the results they obtained, more than they fair share / quota from public funds, stealing from millions of Romanians, in a human rights violation scheme that surpasses any corrupt unlawful fiscal rules they impose to rob money from the private property of honest citizens and transfer it in the bank accounts of these leaders of organized criminal groups (see the definition of organized criminal groups).

The issue is not only that they receive the funds through corruption but that the value provided is only 10% of the +$ 1 million paid to them (with the shareholder keeping a profit of 80% without doing any work), the rest being theft. 

 

 

• These organized criminal groups use corruption, bribery, extortion and money laundering to infiltrate the Parliament and governments (ministries, public institutions) and hide the revenues of their activities. 

Complicating the situation is the involvement of corrupt and incompetent private contractors who have been awarded contracts to monitor, investigate, and audit corruption within the public institutions, central ministries and governments. These firms, rather than fulfilling their intended purpose, have actively colluded with corrupt officials to protect their illicit activities. Their incomplete and corrupt audits have allowed the ministries to continue their fraudulent practices, while they themselves have exploited their positions to have a monopoly on state contracts, to perpetuate systemic corruption and exploitative practices.

 

• The Failure of Publicly-Financed Authorities to Tackle Systemic Corruption demands an active involvement of the Civil Society

The only publicly funded authorities tasked with investigating and prosecuting systemic corruption (high-level or "grand" corruption) are often reluctant to do so, citing the complexity, time commitment, and financial resources required. This inaction, coupled with their poor performance – detecting only 20% of corruption cases and prosecuting only 7% of actual corruption on the market –shifts the burden of addressing systemic corruption and unfair competition onto the already vulnerable, harassed, intimidated, and exploited population (professionals and entrepreneurs). This is a form of abuse of power and betrays the public's trust in these institutions.

To address this critical corruption factor, respectively the refusal of publicly-financed authorities to investigate systemic corruption, I have proposed comprehensive anti-corruption systems and legal measures that I have submitted to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). These measures aim to strengthen the capacity of law enforcement agencies, enhance transparency and accountability, and empower individuals and organizations to participate in the fight against corruption. By adopting these measures, we can create a more just and equitable society where everyone has a fair chance to succeed without fear of exploitation or discrimination.

• The public officials breached their fiduciary duty: loyalty (they don’t pursue the best interest of 95% of the romanian people) and care (mismanagement).

 

 

Corruption is a major problem that is costing Romania dozens of billions of euros each year and is a major obstacle to economic development.

 

These cases (of organised criminal groups) are a serious threat to Romanian democracy, human rights, and rule of law, and constitutes high treason, complicity to organized criminal groups, corruption, and attack to the national and economic security from those who are in power through fraudulent means (deception and fraud).

 

They use the wealth obtained through public procurement frauds to maintain the system of exploitation and corruption:

 

• The corruption schemes in public procurement practiced in Romania (with damages of over €300 billion in the past 34 years), 

• the aggressive tax optimization schemes practiced by corporations through which over €20 billion are extracted annually from national wealth at a GDP of €300 billion) with the help of their professional enablers, Big Four consulting companies, creating unfair competition to the overtaxed individuals who work in SMEs who can’t use tax heavens,

 

The high-level corruption (systemic corruption) and the methods by which it has been and is protected  have led me to donate /dedicate 90% of my time in 2023 and my competencies (related to studies accumulated over +3 years beyond PhD level, including multiple certifications that I have obtained through my own time, effort, and funding) to draft the below-mentioned solutions.

 

 

MECHANISMS OF SYSTEMIC CORRUPTION AND HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES

 

1. The Romanian National Agency for Fiscal Administration (ANAF) collects 29% of Romania's GDP in taxes.

 
Between 14% and 19% of the GDP (and half of the collected taxes) goes to public procurement (half of which falls prey to public procurement fraud).

The money end up in the accounts of corrupt people who have become each $millionaires from fraudulent public procurement, a fact that makes the real decision makers leading ANAF, the Ministry of Finance, MJ, MAI, CSAT, STS, CSM in breach of the UN Convention against Corruption and the UN Convention against organised criminal groups. There is even a breach of the UN Declaration of Human Rights because they are forcing the population to finance organised criminal groups. The fact that they are breaching fundamental laws surpasses any corrupt rule and fiscal law they impose to rob the private property of honest human beings to finance corrupt people and organised criminal groups.

This means EUR 10 to 15 billions every year (EUR 350 billions in 33 years) are money robbed from the population and redistributed in the bank accounts of organised criminal groups.

Data analysis (of final, real beneficiaries benefiting each of $ millions from the money robbed from the population) including their subpar competences and education, financial capital invested initially in the company sourced from previous corruption offences, subpar project results in state contracts) indicate obvious public procurement frauds, financed with the money robbed from the population. Moreover, they are launched in the corrupt business of "protected public procurement frauds" through direct acqusitions initiated by STS, CSAT, etc, some institutions populated with cursed devils who destroyed (with their grand thefts and high-level corruption) the lives of 18 millions Romanians and think they are above the law. What these individuals have done is corruption, high-treason and theft from 18 milllions Romanians.

These cases were not investigated by the judicial systems and have gone unpunished.

In addition to this theft, for each €10 million robbed through projects / state contracts, the corrupts leave behind dysfunctional systems that are causing other €billion damages to the population (i.e, the health system that does not work, the IT infrastructure of the fiscal agency who doesn’t archive fiscal declarations causing additional dozens of hours of admin work for entrepreneurs, in a context where time means money).

(If a corrupt incompetent entrepreneur is making 1 million euro, for 10 hours of work per year, from state contracts obtained through public procurement fraud, why the honest entrepreneurs (better than the corrupts fueled by the corrupt government) who waste 10 hours because of the dysfunctional systems created for the ministries should not sue for the same amount (i.e. 1 million euro) ?

2. If a government collects taxes from its citizens and then uses that money to finance state contracts awarded to organised criminal groups, through public procurement frauds, initiated and protected by corrupt politicians and bureaucrats, by a corrupt fake elite, and a captured justice system - then those taxes are considered embezzled money from the population.

This is because the government has a legal obligation to use tax money for the benefit of the public, not for its own enrichment or to support criminal activity.

I repeat. Taxes are collected from the people to fund public services, such as education, healthcare, and infrastructure.

When these funds are redirected to corrupt firms who provide services and products only at 10% value and quality of the 100% money ($ millions) they receive in state contracts obtained through public procurement frauds, they are diverted from their intended purpose and instead used to support illegal activities, which can harm society in many ways.


3. There are 100,000 multi-millionaires in euros in Romania, but over 50% of them are from state contracts obtained through public procurement fraud schemes, money robbed from the population. The corrupt shareholder keeps between 80% and 50% of the contract money without doing anything, leaving the subcontractor to always deliver sub-standard work for taxpayers.

The sub-contractor usually delivers more than he is paid for and often is forced to cut corners and provide sub-standard work to meet the artificially low prices that have been set by the corrupt shareholder.

This not only harms the quality of public services, but it also cheats taxpayers out of the value of their money.

The issue is with the corrupt shareholder of the company who signed the state contracts with the public institution, contracts obtained through public procurement fraud. This corrupt individual keeps the 70% profits and provides no value in exchange, the taxpayers being the ones who lose that value of the money robbed from them by the ministry of finance.)

4. The next issue is that this capital (any amount over EUR 200.000 euro per person obtained through public procurement fraud in state contracts funded with money robbed from the population) is placed, layered, and integrated in the economy in new businesses that launder the criminal proceeds and create unfair competition to honest entrepreneurs and companies.

5. Romania surrendered its valuable natural resources (gas, oil, forests, etc.), estimated at over €500 billion, as an unofficial bribe (quid pro quo) for votes to adhere to the European Union and secure access to EU funds.

6. Instead of compensating the people (nation) that were robbed of their resources, the EU funds have become a financing mechanism and enabler for corrupt officials and businesses.

The corrupt officials and the organized criminal groups have refused to distribute yearly dividends to the Romanian population (like in Dubai or Sweden), nor have they established a sovereign wealth fund like Norway's, which is now worth $1.9 trillion.

 
Instead, they have pocketed the profits, hired their incompetent relatives on exorbitant salaries, and signed contracts with corrupt companies.

Romania has surrendered its natural resources to receive EU funds, which are now being used to finance the corrupt businesses.

 
This has had a devastating impact on honest Romanians, who have been robbed of the dividends they should have received from their country’s resources, face unfair competition from firms enriched with EU funds and state contracts obtained through public procurement fraud, are overtaxed per capita compared to corrupt corporations, and have seen their national debt per capita skyrocket to €8,000.

The EU funds are also enriching with high salaries the fake elite of corrupt and incompetent bureaucrats who robbed the opportunity and money from other people (more intelligent, more educated than them (with better scores at the same exams and who achieved more public interest goals (at zero costs from public funds or private donations).

 
Their actions have perpetuated a system of exploitation and inequality, benefiting only themselves and their cronies at the expense of the Romanian people.

The list with the first 20.000 people (highest earners from state contracts financed with the 90 billion EU funds given to Romania) in whose bank accounts the EU funds have reached from state contracts financed by EU, to evaluate their credentials, results and impact – will prove this.
 

 

𝐈𝐈. 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐜 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐮𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐨𝐭 𝐂𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐚𝐬𝐬 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐑𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐕𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬, 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧-𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐬?

1. Public procurement fraud (EUR 10 billions yearly) in Romania is the primary method through which organized crime groups maintain their control on power and wealth in Romania.
No public sector job can make so much money for a human being as a state contract obtained through public procurement fraud. Corrupt Individuals with minimal qualifications, subpar performance, and mediocre intellectual ability are reaping millions of euros in net profit per year, while honest, hard-working public servants earn a mere €15,000 net annually.

By manipulating public procurement processes, these groups are able to siphon off billions of euros from the public funds yearly, enriching themselves and naming their corrupt politicians in the Parliament, while depriving the Romanian people of essential services and infrastructure (decent investments in education, health, in research conducted by top professionals and firms with Romanian (honest) capital, in infrastructure, etc.).

 
The EUR billions spent yearly by corrupt bureaucrats in central agencies (not from their bank accounts but from money robbed from others through taxes) on new irrelevant strategies and conferences drafted with the same representatives of companies who profit of the systemic corruption, will never obtain the same results (for the 80% discriminated and robbed population to enrich some corrupts) as the below-mentioned priorities:

- cutting off the financing sources (from state contracts and EU funds) of these white-collar mafia networks that perpetuate this exploitation system through ongoing public procurement fraud (EUR 10 billion yearly) and the looting of state-owned companies.
- recover the EUR 800 billion lost a) through fraudulent schemes that enriched politically connected corrupt firms (also known as crony firms) and b)through tax evasion practices by corporations in the past 34 years.

2. The damage to the Romanian population is not merely limited to the millions of dollars these individuals steal from public funds through public procurement frauds.

The major issue is that the most corrupt and incompetent firms (who launder money from previous criminal proceeds and prosecuted corruption offences):

- are granted exclusive access to key strategic data and population’s private and confidential data (data is the new gold),

- are the sole entities compensated for implementing highly strategic systems and anti-corruption strategies which design these systems with significant flaws and vulnerabilities in order to exploit them and inflict further billion-dollar damages upon the Romanian population.

They leave behind these dysfunctional systems while simultaneously pressuring, lobbying, bribing, and extorting decision-makers to create requests for new dysfunctional systems that enrich the same mafia. They rob the rights of citizens to access detailed monthly reports related to the institutional performance and individual performance for everyone receiving more than EUR 5.000 gross revenue per month from public funds.

This means complete capture of the state by organized criminal groups and protection of the exploitative corrupt systems.

3. The reporting mechanisms in the public sector must mirror the rigorous standards imposed on entrepreneurs and freelancers, for the money that is being robbed from them, who are required to present comprehensive fiscal and financial documentation.

The civil society deserves immediate access to the published ranked list of the first 100,000 individuals who have received the most money from public procurement contracts or grants funded by E.U. funds over the past 17 years at EU institutions level and in each EU state.

This list should be the number one priority in terms of investments toward government transparency and accountability.

By adopting this approach, the civil society can effectively monitor public institutions and safeguard human rights at a lower cost.

 

𝐈𝐈𝐈. 𝐑𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐚 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐮𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐬 (𝐠𝐚𝐬, 𝐨𝐢𝐥, 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐬, 𝐞𝐭𝐜.), 𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐭 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 €𝟐𝟎𝟎 𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐧 𝐮𝐧𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐞 (𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐨 𝐪𝐮𝐨) 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐯𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐝𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐄𝐔 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐬.

Instead of compensating the people (nation) that were robbed of their resources (EUR 200 billion), the EU funds (EUR 90 billions) have become a lifeline, financing mechanism, and enabler for corrupt officials and businesses, causing double damage to the honest entrepreneurs faced now with the unfair competition posed by the corrupt businesses.

The corrupt officials and the organized criminal groups have refused to distribute yearly dividends from the exploited national resources to the Romanian population (like in Dubai or Sweden), nor have they established a sovereign wealth fund like Norway's, which is now worth $1.9 trillion.

These unscrupulous individuals have not only pocketed the profits but have also appointed their unqualified relatives to positions of power, rewarding them with exorbitant salaries far exceeding their merit.

They have colluded with corrupt companies and transnational white-collar consulting companies, handpicking the corrupt and incompetent executive management teams through affiliated corrupt headhunting firms. The corrupt individuals named in power positions then awarded lucrative contracts to organized criminal groups, the so-called white-collar mafia. Together, they have orchestrated a grand theft, depriving Romanians of their rightful share of the nation's wealth. For this systemic corruption, grand theft, and human rights violation all the parties will pay.

The audacity of this scheme extends to the political sphere, where those who have benefited from this illicit wealth have colluded with bureaucrats to safeguard their ill-gotten gains and shield the transnational white-collar mafia from accountability.

This unholy alliance continues to perpetuate a system of exploitation that has robbed 18 million Romanians of their fundamental rights.

Romania has surrendered its natural resources to receive EU funds used to finance the corrupt businesses.

This has had a devastating impact on honest Romanians, who:

- have been robbed of the dividends they should have received from their country’s resources,

- face unfair competition from firms enriched with EU funds and state contracts obtained through public procurement fraud,

- are overtaxed per capita compared to corrupt corporations, and

- have seen their national debt per capita skyrocket to €8,000.

The list of the ranked, first 10.000 individuals who have received these funds (through state contracts, grants, or consulting services) provides irrefutable evidence of this systemic corruption. This entrenched corruption violates fundamental human rights.

This insidious and exploitative system of corruption is perpetuated and fortified by the very institutions that are supposed to safeguard against it.

The visible systemic risk - the public institutions who are entrusted with oversight are vulnerable to political capture - is amplified by the fact that even the external investigative and auditing contracts are disproportionately awarded to those who facilitate the tax dodging practiced by corporations (the yearly EUR 200 billions that are extracted from EU countries and EUR 20 billions from Romania) and white-collar criminal networks.

The issue is not that the European Union does not provide funds to its member states. The issue lies in the fact that 90% of these funds end up in the hands of organized criminal groups (white-collar mafia), who then utilize them for their own illicit purposes.

And there will be no RO-Exit because the European Union must pay damages to the 15 millions Romanian who were robbed of their country resources and faced unfair competition from the corrupt businesses financed by the European Union and its corrupt bureaucrats. The fact that some human beings received more from public funds than they deserves and than the results they obtained - breached the fundamental human rights of 18 millions robbed Romanians.

It is imperative that the European Union take immediate action to rectify this situation. The EU must hold accountable those responsible for the theft of EU funds and ensure that these funds are redirected to projects that benefit the Romanian people.  The Romanian people deserve justice and restitution for the plunder of their country's wealth.

The only EU funds that must be prioritised for Romania at this moment, must be related to providing financial assistance to independent private investigators, auditors (not the professional enablers of tax dodging, big four companies), and independent media to identify, investigate, document, and recover the EUR 800 billions robbed by the corrupts through public procurement frauds and from state companies, from the Romanian population.

 

This high-level corruption, perpetuated by a nexus of corrupt politicians, organized criminal networks, and complicit judicial and intelligence officials, systematically robbed and robs honest Romanian citizens of their hard-earned money and rights.

At an EU institution level and in each EU state, the Governments must publish a ranked list of the first 100,000 individuals who have received the most money from public procurement contracts or grants funded by E.U. funds over the past 17 years.

The civil society deserves immediate access to this list. This list should be the number one priority in terms of investments toward government transparency and accountability. 

 

The cost for providing this information should be covered, with priority, from the money already collected from  taxpayers money which are meant to serve the public interest (and work for the interest) of the taxpayers, not to protect the data of some individuals (a percentage of the total from the list above) who have enriched themselves with millions of euros through public procurement fraud without providing a tangible value in return. 

 

This transparency-related measure will reduce the cost of investigations and public oversight, prevent corruption, and help address the mechanisms and corruption vulnerabilities and opportunities that enable these individuals to perpetuate the EUR 200 billion in public procurement fraud at the EU level and EUR 10 billion in Romania.  Additionally, the list should include their CVs, qualifications, results obtained, solutions provided, and independent quality evaluations/audits of their results and impact. 

 

A CALL FOR ACTION: URGENT SYSTEMIC ANTI-CORRUPTION SAFEGUARDS IN THE UN CONVENTION AGAINST CORRUPTION

 

Given the context presented above, the major systemic corruption factors identified, and the corrupt practices that cause trillions of dollars in damages every year, these new anti-corruption and transparency measures can only effectively address systemic corruption if they are included in the UN Convention Against Corruption as a legally binding instrument, specifically in Article 9 (Public procurement and management of public finances) and Article 10 (Public reporting).

 

1. Enforce a legally-binding proactive disclosure for all public procurement regarding the actual beneficiaries of state contracts and grants (individual beneficiaries in whose bank accounts the money ends up), down to the level of individual shareholders and beneficiaries in whose bank accounts those funds end up, from 2008 – present.

Governments must publish a ranked list of the first 100,000 individuals who have received the most money from public procurement contracts or grants funded by E.U. funds over the past 17 years at EU institutions level and in each EU state.

The civil society deserves immediate access to this list. This list should be the number one priority in terms of investments toward government transparency and accountability. 

 

The cost for providing this information should be covered, with priority, from the money already collected from  taxpayers, money which are meant to serve the public interest and work for the interest of the taxpayers, not to protect the data of some individuals (a percentage of the total from the list above) who have enriched themselves with millions of euros through public procurement fraud without providing any tangible value in return. 

 

This transparency-related measure will reduce the cost of investigations, prevent corruption, and help address the mechanisms and corruption vulnerabilities and opportunities that enable these individuals to commit EUR 200 billion in public procurement fraud at the EU level and EUR 10 billion in Romania.  

Additionally, the list should include their CVs, qualifications, results obtained, solutions provided, and independent quality evaluations/audits of their results and impact. 

 

The issue is not only that they receive the funds through corruption but that the value provided is only 10% of the +$ 1 million paid to each of them.

This initiative can be achieved by working with the UN to improve and update the UN Convention Against Corruption, specifically Article 9 (Public procurement and management of public finances) and Article 10 (Public reporting) with these new anti-corruption and transparency measures. 

 

 

2. Extend the area of public procurement fraud to include money laundering in the following forms:

 

 a) "individuals who utilize a portfolio of projects obtained through corrupt means to secure state contracts for their new or existing firms - engage in fraudulent behavior" and

 b) "the use of capital obtained through corrupt means, such as salaries earned in previous projects that an organization obtained through public procurement frauds, to finance new businesses that are then awarded (the most significant share of state contracts), should be considered money laundering and fraud".

These are corruption vulnerabilities.

 

Reason: Currently, 50% of the public procurement fraud was and is happening by exploiting these corruption vulnerabilities in legislation, creating systemic corruption and unfair competition on honest entreprenerus and undermining national economies.

 

 

 These vulnerabilities can be addressed by improving the UN Convention Against Corruption, specifically Article 9 (Public procurement and management of public finances).

 

 

3. Implement a reward system that distributes a percentage of the value of recovered funds from corruption cases to the independent journalists and investigators who identified, documented, and contributed to the successful prosecution of those cases.

 

Motivation: This system aims to motivate individuals to obtain results and achieve high performance in the public interest and address the current corrupt and discriminatory practices that pay only the corrupts who maintain exploitative and corrupt systems in place.

 

Reward Structure:

• Private Investigators, Civilians, Investigative Journalists: For cases they initiated and where their work significantly aided prosecution, award 1% to 30% of the recovered funds (similar to the SEC model in the US).

• Prosecutors and Teams: For cases they successfully prosecute, award 0.8% to 29.2% of the recovered funds. This percentage is calculated by subtracting the costs of prosecution (salaries, administrative expenses, technology) from either 1% or 30% of the recovered funds.

 

Reward results, not institutions that can be captured by corrupt interest groups. 

 

Reward the people who obtain the public interest goals (results) even if they have a formal contract or not.  

 

Taxpayers pay for results. 

 

Independent experts who achieve public interest goals even without having a contract with a formal public institution should be compensated from taxpayers’ money already collected by the ministry of finance. They should be paid for their investigations and the positive impact they create, especially when their results surpass those of institutions that are paid to achieve these same goals.

 

These institutions block the access to “be paid for results” to: employees, most of them hired based on corrupt practices, and to their corrupt private contractors who enrich themselves with millions of euros from public funds each year while providing subpar results. 

Why shouldn't independent experts be funded from the same public funds that are currently being drained by underperforming institutions and their corrupt associates?

These fraudulent schemes, orchestrated by corrupt firms, have resulted in hundreds of billions of euros in losses for the Romanian people. This corruption and high treason must be brought to an end.

 

Issues addressed:

 

Key Points. Call To Action To Protect Human Rights: A New Standard For Justice And Financial Integrity For Sustainable Development

 

• Reward those who deliver results and achieve public interest goals, regardless of their title or affiliation. Taxpayers demand outcomes, not the perpetuation of inefficient institutions riddled with corruption.

 

• Independent expertise (experts outside of the group of the professional enablers of corruption and illicit financial flows aka the big four multinational companies) can outperform bloated, corrupt agencies. If someone produces evidence leading to recovered funds, they've done more for the public than highly paid bureaucrats who squander taxpayer money.

 

• Corrupt contractors line their pockets with public funds meant to benefit citizens. This high-level theft must end. Why not use those same funds to reward those who prove their results and truly fight for the public good?

 

Examples: Taxpayers spent $10 billion on agency X and external consultants to find corruption. Independent initiative like this one, with no funding, exposed a $1 billion fraud and created anti-corruption systems to address the $2 trillion yearly corruption and $1 trillion public procurement fraud to the protect public interest and human rights. Justice demands I must be rewarded.

 

Experts who deliver exceptional results for the public, even without formal contracts, deserve to be compensated from the very funds they helped save.

 

Why should taxpayer money keep enriching corrupt institutions and their cronies, instead of rewarding those who get results?

 

4. Limit the amount of public funds a person can obtain if they receive N times more than the results they obtained, their competences, the value provided and positive impact created. 

 

If the above initiatives are too complex to implement, and the risk that the same high level corruption and transnational mafia will continue to rob the taxes paid by the population (the human beings create the profits, not some invisible entity, and distributing the profits to corrupt entities through public procurement frauds privileging corrupt turnover is the way billions are kept in poverty and state breach their rights), then this is the a least human rights initiative that should be implemented.

There should be a maximum amount of public funds that a person can receive from state contracts. 

This would help to prevent the concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a few corrupt individuals. 

It will also put an end to the theft of economic opportunities and human rights from honest highly-skilled professionals whose pro-bono work is more valuable than the results obtained by those with million-dollar state contracts obtained through fraudulent means.

 

The above mentioned legal measures and tech infrastructure meant to enhance transparency and accountability are not impossible to achieve.

 

I estimate they are achievable at an estimated cost of €100 billion, meaning less expensive than many irelevant EU funded initiatives that provide no value to the EU citizens and enrich organized criminal groups.

 

Otherwise, this straightforward rule “capped limit on public funds receivable from state contracts per individual” can effectively address systemic corruption.

 

This will help achieve the Specific objective Eliminate inequalities and discrimination and promote equality for all.

 

5. Provide upfront funds for evaluators and investigators to identify and document the theft of $200 billions form EU funds and national funds (throgh public procuremet frauds) in the past 17 years, and stop fueling mafia networks from EU funds that provide no value to communities. The issue is not that the European Union does not provide funds to its member states. The issue lies in the fact that 90% of these funds end up in the hands of organized criminal groups (white-collar mafia), who then utilize them for their own illicit purposes:

• Money laundering: Corrupt individuals use EU funds to launder their ill-gotten gains from previous public procurement frauds, enriching themselves at the expense of legitimate businesses and citizens.

• Creating unfair competition: Corrupt individuals use their ill-gotten wealth (financial capital and portfolio of projects obtained through corruption) as an unfair advantage over honest businesses. This creates a distorted and unjust market environment.

• Leaving behind dysfunctional systems: Corrupt individuals often prioritize their own personal gain over the public interest, leading to the implementation of inefficient and ineffective infrastructure.

• Cyberattacks against whistleblowers: Criminals spend the EU funds on firms that launch defamatory campaigns or cyberattacks against individuals who dare to speak out against their corruption. This intimidation tactic silences dissent and perpetuates the cycle of abuse.

• Tax evasion: A significant portion of the EU funds ends up in offshore tax havens (EU-funded state contracts awarded to companies with shareholders in tax heavens), depriving communities of the resources they need to thrive.

 

6. End financial abuses to save people and planet:

 

 

• A corrupt and failing fiscal and financial systems coupled with the redistribution of the wealth robbed from human beings (through taxes) to organised criminal groups enriched by states through the method of fradulent public procurement empowered by the criteria “award contracts/money based on turnover” (when that capital is obtained from frauds and human rights abuses and EU institutions don’t verify it), instead of awarding per human beings who are benefiting of those funds, perpetuates poverty, and robs the world of the resources desperately needed to tackle poverty and the climate crisis.

 

Captured governments and EU institutions funnel contracts and public funds to organised criminal networks. On my time and on my money I have conducted an investigation and I have the list of these companies (as a rule, 80% of all EU- funded contracts enriched some cusred  human beings with mllion of euro per person by the EU institutions, with money robbed from hundres of millions of europeans).

This happens through rigged bidding processes that prioritize wealth over merit, with no checks to ensure the legitimacy of bidders' funds/welath. As a result, communities desperately needing resources are robbed, and efforts to fight poverty and achieve the SDGs are starved of funding.

 

 

• To transform our global economy for the common good, we must close the legal and operational loopholes that enable money laundering, corruption, and tax abuse. We must hold accountable those professionals - bankers, accountants, auditors, consultants, and lawyers, especially the multinationals consultants-accountants-lawyers - who facilitate these crimes.

 

• The recent pandemic and wars have pushed new hundreds of million into poverty while billionaires' wealth skyrocketed. This is morally unacceptable when a huge portion of the world's wealth remains hidden offshore, denying governments the tax revenue necessary to fund essential services.

 

• The consultants paid by the governments to create the fiscal systems are the multinationals who advice these billionaires and corporations on how to avoid taxes.

 

The current financial system enriches a few at the expense of the many, hindering efforts to eradicate poverty and achieve the sustainable development goals.

7. Address the professional enablers of frauds, corruption, tax dodging and money laundering

When plutocrats, criminals and corrupt individuals seek to conceal or "clean" their stolen gains, they often turn to professional intermediaries. These enablers are the ones who make funds appear legitimate through complex schemes.

 

The multinationnal consultancies Big Four offer the whole package to these corrupt individuals both to orchestrate frauds to rob communities of their resources (see the examples: African countries, fraudulent privatisation of Petrom where  E&Y was the financial consultant who undervalued the assets causing a $10 billion loss to the romanian people, now helping fraudsters to rob $2-6 billions from the Romanian population through Rosia Montana case: E&Y and PwC are consultant) and b) to launder the money:

 

 Lawyers craft intricate corporate structures, accountants devise tax strategies, the bankers (in alliance with the Big Four accountants and consultants), move money using anonymous offshore accounts, art dealers and realtors handle untraceable cash deals, and even educational or charitable organizations might turn a blind eye to the criminal origins of donations.

 

Without the expertise of these enablers, laundering illicit wealth would be far more challenging.

 

Despite years of regulations and ethical codes, leaks and investigations reveal disturbingly high levels of complicity from these professionals. Their services are now vital for the flow of illegal money – what we call Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs).

 

New laws, like those from the U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network or the UK's Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill, are aimed at curbing these practices. Yet, the global, adaptive, and concealed nature of money laundering makes it hard to measure progress. Researchers offer estimates on the staggering scale of this problem, but the true extent remains hard to quantify.

 

The Evidence

Data leaks and investigations, including the FinCEN Files, Panama Papers, Pandora Papers, Paradise Papers, and others like the Cullen Commission Report in Canada, have shed light on the extent of corruption and the central role of enablers. As scrutiny increases, more cases emerge. Following Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, for example, evidence surfaced of Kremlin-linked figures hiding illicit wealth through global real estate transactions, a process in which PWC has been implicated.

 

Solicitor-client privilege. Lawyers typically enjoy solicitor-client privilege, ensuring their communications with clients remain confidential. Accountants, however, do not have this protection. This gets tricky when lawyers and accountants work together for a single client within the same firm. If an accountant represents the client when meeting with the lawyer, a gray area emerges – the lines of privilege blur. Accountants gain a level of protection through their association with the lawyer, allowing for seamless collaboration and secrecy around client affairs.

Safe Havens (shelters/retreats) for the Corrupt: Countries offering high levels of stability and wealth become appealing destinations for the illicit wealth of fraudsters and corrupt officials. Ironically, these havens are often developed nations perceived as financially secure. Sophisticated techniques for hiding illegal transactions are designed by a network of enablers, including lawyers, accountants, multinational big four consultants and auditors and financial institutions, who also frequently operate within these havens.

Vested interests like banks and multinational facilitators like the Big Four consultants and accountants possess significant sway over national policies and international decision-making, including capturing the EU institutions that not only did not block them for their lobby, but paid them $4 billion to take illegal and non-democratic control of strategies, investigations, data.

This disproportionate power overtakes the ability of small businesses and civil society groups to influence policy or enforcement.