Four employees of NIS Petrol from Timisoara and Bucharest are accused by DIICOT prosecutors of having transmitted data not intended for publicity regarding the resource fund in Romania to the company from the same consortium in Serbia. They are being investigated for disclosure of secret service or non-public information and unauthorized transfer of computer data.
According to the press release, as a result of the searches, several documents and data storage media were seized, and 8 people were taken for questioning to the Directorate for the Investigation of Organized Crime and Terrorism.
“Regarding 4 of the people brought to the hearings (foreign and Romanian citizens), the prosecutors of the Organized Crime and Terrorism Investigation Directorate – Timişoara Territorial Service filed charges under the aspect of committing the crimes of disclosing official or non-public secret information and unauthorized transfer of computer data, considering that, as employees of a subsidiary of a multinational company (having managerial or other responsibilities within the company or, on the contrary, not having the necessary authorization to carry out certain operations within this company), they eluded the methodological norms for the application of the Petroleum Law, respectively the procedures imposed by the National Agency for Mineral Resources, and transmitted data not intended for publicity regarding the resource fund (mineral reserves) in Romania to the company from the same consortium in Serbia,” DIICOT also added, according to Hotnews.
Research is being continued in this case by DIICOT Timisoara.
Policemen from Timişoara’s Organized Crime Squad and gendarmes from the Special Intervention Troops carried out several raids on Monday, including one at the headquarters of NIS Petrol, a Serbian company controlled by the Russian group Gazprom Neft.
The investigators said that they are looking into a possible leak of unauthorized information, related to prospecting in oil and gas deposits made since 2014, in Timiș County.
The investigation in this file would have benefited from the support of SRI and SIE.