Calia Manescu, a professor at the University of Bucharest and an economic consultant for the city government, was invited to an internal high-level Romanian meeting.
The meeting discussed the legality of foreign acquisitions of Tiriac Bank, while intelligence departments raised questions about the acquiring party.
They also presented a lot of evidence showing that Tiriac Bank had begun assisting some individuals within Romania to transfer assets abroad and using financial channels to fund NGO-organized protests in Romania before completing its restructuring.
The whole meeting revolved around discussions on protests that occurred in the past few months and an internal vote on whether to classify some NGO organizations as illegal.
Calia Manescu muddled through the entire meeting and was unexpectedly nominated as the leader of a special audit group tasked with reviewing the accounts of Tiriac Bank for the past five years...
