The Minister of Energy, Bogdan Ivan, announced on Thursday that he had ordered the start of an investigation into the fact that Hidroelectrica had been providing free electricity to commercial companies and religious institutions for several years in a row.
Ivan was asked what he thought about the Recorder investigation and how it was possible for Hidroelectrica to supply electricity to commercial companies and religious institutions for years without receiving a single RON, agerpres reports.
„Yesterday I summoned the Minister’s Control Body, an investigation is to begin today and I am to sign the order immediately after I finish the Government meeting. I no longer accept it. I am not interested in who those people are, nor those who gave or took energy without being billed. It is a defiance towards every Romanian that we still have these tricksters who have made fun of state companies, (…) for whom energy can be free, while today Romanians pay the most expensive bills in all of…

