Romanian MP asks for review of management of local/foreign firms over protests

MP Adrian Tutuianu, who is the head of the Joint Standing Committee of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate for the exercise of parliamentary control over the activity of the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI), said he asked for the review of the activities of managers of firms with local and foreign capital, over the ongoing street protests in Romania.

Tutuianu, who is a member of the Social Democratic Party, said that the PSD doesn’t have an issue with any multinational or another kind of firm in Romania.

“There was information and I have asked for the review regarding the activity of the management of the activity of sme firms and in order to be balanced, with local and foreign capital that got involved in the protests,” said Tutuianu.

The MP added that he still believes it was “inappropriate” for the head of a multinational firm, which has litigations with the state or the Romanians, to attend protests.

“Secondly, I have clearly stated that what we ask multinationals is to abide to the law, to pay their taxes, to operate in the limits of the law, to create jobs,” said Tutuianu, explaining that “we” means himself, the members of the committee on SRI and the PSD.

AmCham Romania, the association that has 400 members, including American, international and local companies, rejected any kind of involvement in the ongoing protests.

On the back of the ongoing political crisis, certain PSD members claimed that multinationals might have gotten involved in the street protests, citing certain media articles, which have been debunked as fake news.

The governor of the National Bank of Romania, Mugur Isarescu, said that there was an issue with transfer prices in the case of the multinational firms, suggesting that this kind of firms should abite to the local tax rules.