Mazare upped 10 times the price of retired men coffees

If last year Constanţa Municipality spent 740 million old lei on the retired men coffees, this year the city hall is spending 7.2 billion lei - ten times more. 

Constanţa municipality "reheated" ttthe contract to the company that used to be Ovidiu Chircă's indispensable member of Mazăre - Constantinescu team.

To put it other way, the coffees and the tea served in the turrets for retired people will be this year distributed by the same provider from the last year, but not for free, but against a lot of money.

As anticipated in our article from December 2008, the service of installing the machines for hot drinks was given to Prodigy Corporation company.  An advertising on Electronic Systems of Public Acquisitions announced, on 24 decembrie 2008, that Constanţa municipality was searching a provider of coffee and tea for the year 2009.

Consequently, as a follow to this open action, on 20 February 2009, the contract was attributed to Prodigy Corporation company. According to the assignation announce form 19^th of March 2009, only one bid was submitted.

The crisis does not "cut off" coffees

The estimated value the municipality was willing to offer for the coffees of the pensioners was 666,900 lei no VAT included, for the whole year, that is about eight billion old lei (VAT included). What is shocking is that, while in 2008, Constanţa municipality spent around 700 million lei for coffee for seniors, in 2009, Radu Mazăre's city is paying ten times more. From the contract with the municipality, the company earned, this year, 613,200 lei no VAT, that is more than 7.2 billion old lei.

Chircă apostatised his past as a coffee adicted

It is to notice that Ovidiu Chircă, Constanţa PSD member and employee with Constanţa County Council, dropped back from this business which had him as unique sharesolder.

At the beginning of  2008, Chircă owned parts of two companies - Prodigy  Corporation and G&O Bee Corporation SRL -, while at the end of 2008, he was involved only in the latter.

Out of suspicious reasons, Ovidiu Chircă ceded his shares, for free, to Lucreţia Cioară, on 25^th of March 2008, the very day in which the newspaper Ziua de Constanţa wrote about the "coffee" business between the PSD [Social Democrat Party] member and  Constanţa Municipality. At that moment, Chircă apostatized from Prodigy Corporation company and turned Lucreţia Cioară into the legal representative and owner. The link between Chircă and Lucreţia Cioară is quite obvious, as he and her husband, Gheorghe Cioară, are business partners in G (Gheorghe) & O (Ovidiu) Bee Corporation. Notice that Chircă is also member of Apis Tomitana Dacica Asociation.

The wife, hired by the municipality

An interesting little detail about the former owner of Prodigy Corporation is that, according to his asset declaration from 2006, his wife, Chircă Nora-Alina, was a legal adviser within Constanţa municipality. The asset declaration from 2008, she may no longer be found in the income column.

Nevertheless, she is still on the organisational chart posted on Constanţa municipality website, as an employee with the Juridical Department.