“We hereby notify you that the contracts with UTI-Romprest, Romar Medical, Bluer Air, G4S, Promotional Interservice have been terminated,” the company announced.
Officials of Posta Romana, which is undergoing restructuring and aims to return to profit in 2014, did not specify what savings the termination of these contracts would bring the state-owned company.
The contracts signed by Posta Romana in the last few years caused expenditures to double. The main loss-makers were contracts signed during the term of Dan Mihai Toader, who was charged by the DNA (National Anticorruption Department) in a case surrounding the association of Posta Romana with a group of companies for a real estate development on Bucharest’s Calea Victoriei. Toader was appointed to the helm of the company by Communications Minister Zsolt Nagy in 2005, who was also targeted by an investigation launched by the anticorruption institution.
The main contracts signed include the one with Blue Air (for air transport services), worth just over EUR40 million and with UTI-Romprest (cleaning and maintenance services), worth EUR41 million.
“The contract had been signed over three years and a half [starting from September 8, 2008]. We accepted Posta Romana’s contract termination notice earlier. We negotiated and the contract was ended amicably,” said Gheorghe Racaru, strategy manager of Blue Air, controlled by Nelu Iordache.