George Butunoiu, one of the best-known head-hunters on the Romanian market, and who for more than ten years recruits directors or members in the administrations of state-owned companies, «detonated» last week at the ZF Live show, explaining how the reviews are made in the management of the state companies: The selection tenders, the parties, through the shareholders of the documents-the ministries, do anything to impose their people, in the state, that is, the shareholder is not interested self. The parties from the government or even the parliamentary parties allocate their companies where to put their people and from there actually the devaluation begins. All political leaders, larger or smaller, all the ministers, older, newer, more influential or less influential, publicly invoke the national interest in state companies, but in reality they are part of this process of continuous devaluation of state companies. They escaped as much as the companies listed on the stock exchange, where there is some transparency obligation through the results reported quarterly, through the annual reports, by the fact that there are shareholders near the state, who still participate in the general meetings of the shareholders and ask more questions, or by the fact that certain situations within these companies are revealed. In contrast, in closed state companies, where state institutions – ministries, SGG, etc. – They are the only shareholders, it is a devaluation from top to bottom. The beating is on product and services suppliers, from guard, facility management, maintenance, copiers, gasoline, to the best business, those in IT. Digitalization means nothing but the purchase of extremely expensive IT products and services, after which to follow the maintenance contracts, which extend for decades and are ultra money. Behind the visible leaders of the parties are «clans» for companies that fight on these contracts. Including multinationals are part in these contracts. The management of state companies, the independent-theoretical selection-of the directors, of the members of the board of directors, is such a strong subject for the parties that in the Ciuca-Ciolacu government, ie PSD-PNL, the two governments preferred to miss 800 million euros, one of the PNRR tanks, than to make an independent selection in the management of the states. interests. The parties, those who are or those who were at the Victoria Palace in the first and second line, let Romania lose European money, preferring to reach the situation where, now, Prime Minister Bolojan to increase taxes and taxes. On the shareholder, that is, on the state, that is, the government, that is, the ministry, that is, those responsible for the Government and the ministries, no one interests what is happening in the state companies as long as they are «milking cows», as long as the clans of the parties can extract money. If the prime minister, a minister, a Secretary of State is not interested in what is happening in a state-owned company, why would the one who is selected and appointed to run the state company? He knows he goes there to make money for him and those who called him. George Butunoiu said at ZF Live that if a manager can win personally, at a state company, half a million euros, salary plus bonus, he has no hesitation to let the company lose 20 million euros, for example. What Butunoiu wants to say is that these managers put in front of the party have no hesitation to let the state companies collapse if they can extract something from it. Every year the government, regardless of who is in power, injects billions and billions of lei in losses, and on the other side the money is removed through product and services deliveries, through mandate contracts, etc. and if a state company is on profit, it happens the same. As long as the state companies remain with a single shareholder, the state, the devaluation is the order of the day. That is why there is a ferocious opposition in the list of state-owned companies, a process by which this institutional devaluation would be reduced. Better to lose several hundred million euros, if not billions, than the Government to force the listing of state -owned companies. The unseen force behind the parties is much stronger than anything. The taxes and taxes can increase even more, only no one is touched by state companies, where billions of lei are injected every year through all forms – direct money, loans, guarantees, etc. I do not know why George Butunoiu has «detonated» by publicly explaining what the management of the management means in the state companies, but what is the case with the state companies, state companies. When you hear a minister, a larger or smaller political leader, fighting with the «national interest» in state-owned companies, you know that there is most devalued.
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