DNA Constanta ordered the start of criminal action against 5 persons within Cernavoda Subsidiary and placed the manager and the financial manager of the company under a 60-day period of judicial control, for irregularities related to the closing of certain contracts.
“The facts concluded by the National Anticorruption Directorate have not affected, nor they will affect in any way the nuclear safety and operation of the nuclear power plant and/or all other support functions relating to the core activity, the company unfolding its activity based on its assumed objectives,” the company said in a statement to Bucharest Stock Exchange.
Nuclearelectrica operates Romania’s sole nuclear power plant in Cernavoda, whose two 700-megawatt reactors cover around 20% of the country’s electricity consumption.