Last year, RCS&RDS registered losses of over RON 59.2 million, up by 158% against 2015, according to the figures posted on the website of the Ministry of Public Finance (MFP).
The net turnover exceeded RON 3.2 billion, up by 22.1% as compared to the previous year. The revenues also climbed by 14.1% to RON 3.81 billion. Total expenditures amounted to RON 3.87 billion, higher by 15.3%.
The debts amounted to over RON 5 billion, by 14.6% higher than in 2015. The average number of employees rose from 10,579 to 11,122 persons in 2016.
The National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) announced on Wednesday that Ioan Bendei, former administrator of RCS&RDS, has been placed under judicial control in the file in which he is accused of bribe giving and complicity to money laundering. The prosecutors have seized the company’s assets up to the amount of RON 13,714,414.
“In view of special confiscation, the anticorruption prosecutors have decided on the seizure of the assets belonging to the companies BODU SRL (up to the amount of RON 16,771,659) and to RCS&RDS SA (up to the amount of RON 13,714,414),” DNA informs.
Also under judicial control is prosecuted the former president of the Professional Football League (LPF) Dumitru Dragomir, who is accused of bribe taking and complicity to money laundering.
“During April 2009-May 2011, defendant Dumitru Dragomir, as chairman of the Professional Football League, asked for the amount of EUR 3.5 million (of which he received EUR 3.1 million) from suspect Bendei Ioan, administrator of a cable TV company, aiming to complete or not to complete his official workload and to complete deeds contrary to these. The money was claimed and received by Dumitru Dragomir within the context of a cession contract for TV broadcasting rights of Liga 1 football matches, concluded on April 8, 2008 between LPF and the consortium made up by two companies, among which the company managed by suspect Bendei Ion,” DNA informs.