Ciolacu’s first response after the Nordis scandal: We are changing the legislation. Laura Vicol will not run for parliament – HotNews.ro

“I think there should be legislative intervention,” said Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu on Wednesday, when asked by journalists to comment on the Recorder’s investigation into the Nordis real estate project, a clan business political buildings with connections at the highest level. level.” Ciolacu also announced that Laura Vicol will no longer run for parliament.

“I had a conversation with my colleagues so that things like that could not happen again. (…) You see, we took the legislation from France, and from Germany, we made a working group at the Parliament with Mr. Simonis and they will come up with a legislative proposal. In France, for example, you are not allowed to charge more than a 10% down payment on a block of flats that you have not built. Or go through the insurance system. It seems normal for me to change the legislation in this regard,” said the prime minister.

He also said that Laura Vicol will not run on any list in the upcoming parliamentary elections. “Ms. Vicol has not expressed her desire to run and no president of any group has come forward to recommend her on the list,” said Ciolacu.

Laura Vicol-Ciorbă is the wife of Vladimir Ciorbă, the main partner of Nordis. Laura Vicol, the former head of PSD, resigned on Tuesday from the position of president of the Legal Commission of the Chamber of Deputies.

As Ciolacu Vicol suggested: “He is not corrupt or unprofessional”

Ciolacu claims that there was no legislative change that would benefit Laura Vicol in any business.

In October 2020, when she was recommended on the list of parliamentarians, by the Dolj group, Ciolacu said about Laura Vicol that she had not heard that she was “neither corrupt nor unprofessional“

In December 2021, when she was appointed head of the Law Commission, Marcel Ciolacu said that he had “no problem with Mrs. Vicol regarding his professionalism. “On the other hand, I have seen many well-made legislative proposals”, Ciolacu then said.

Dacian Cioloş, the president of the USR at that time, asks the leaders of PNL and PSD to “immediately withdraw the underworld lawyer, Laura Vicol, from the head of the Legal Commission of the Chamber of Deputies” .

Project Nordis, a political clan-owned business

Nordis was supposed to be the most spectacular real estate project in Romania in recent years, but the evolution of this business got all the ingredients of a pyramid scheme with hundreds of people damaged and millions of euro a missing from the developer’s accounts, according to the Registrar in an analysis published on Monday.

In the last few years, millions of euros have flowed into Nordis accounts, but most of the residential properties that were promised were still only on paper and in advertisements. Using aggressive marketing campaigns and considering major weaknesses in Romanian legislation, Nordis collected large sums in advance from people who, although they paid in full, did not take possession of the promised apartments, which according to Recorder’s investigation.

The Registrar found strong indications that some flats had been sold more than once, to different people.

Romania is a true legislative paradise for real estate developers who sell apartments from the project stage. Romanian laws allow these companies to collect in advance even 100% of the value of the apartments that have not yet been built, do not have any restrictions on spending this money and do not require developers to insure mach that could compensate clients in the event of force majeure.

In contrast, in France an advance of more than 5% cannot be collected, the money goes into a special account for construction, and developers must take out insurance that protects purchase

The laws favoring such property fraud should be changed in Parliament, but the Nordis business is full of political connections at the highest level.

The main partner of Nordis is Vladimir Ciorbă, and his wife is Laura Vicol, PSD MP and head of the Legal Commission in the Chamber of Deputies. This committee has a key role in the legislative process of Parliament. Basically, Vicol should change the laws that allowed her husband to run this whole fraudulent scheme.