Catalin Homor, the company’s director for investments and public acquisitions, will run Metrorex as interim general manager.
Anticorruption prosecutors have recently run search operations at Metrorex on suspicion of corruption related to an auction whereby the company wants to buy more than 50 subway trains.
French company Alstom and Romanian company Astra Vagoane Arad recently filed complaints at the National Contestation Settlement Board (CNSC) regarding Metrorex’s decision to declare Spanish firm CAF winner of an auction although its bid was 20% higher. CAF had won the auction targeting the acquisition of some 50 subway trains needed for the fifth mainline linking Drumul Taberei to Eroilor.
Moreover, Metrorex caused stir among people after announcing it would increase its fares by 16%-33% at the end of March and also boost costs with salaries, bonuses and directors’ mandate contracts.
Radu has been running Metrorex since 2012.