Deputy chairman of the Securities Commission Paul Miclaus is accused in connection to Rompetrol case, specifically for having favored criminals and having adhered to a crime group, Miclaus told media daily after being subpoenaed by the prosecutors for being informed about the charges. The prosecutors reportedly accused CNVM deputy chairman of having used his position to delay the finding of truth in this affair. He allegedly did this because he purportedly had some connections with defendant Dinu Patriciu – Rompetrol's CEO. A group of persons including Patriciu is being investigated in connection to market operations involving Rompetrol shares, particularly the IPO operated back in 2004. The charges announced against Securities Commission's deputy chairman indicate that the investigations move toward technical aspects. Initially, Patriciu was broadly accused for "market manipulation," but more recently the investigations were expanded to include technical aspects related to the trading and money transfer system – according to local sources.

In other news, Rompetrol will bring the Romanian Intelligence Service to Court accusing the country's main secret service of having tapped phone calls of Patriciu and of Rompetrol management for several years, Nine O'clock daily reports. The company will ask for US$1 million in moral compensation plus material damages that are to be estimated at a further date, the group announced in a news release. Earlier last year, Rompetrol warned to sue the state in front of the WB's arbitration court for having illegally investigated CEO Patriciu and asked for US$100 million in compensations. It is still unclear how far the company's lawyers went with that case.