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Virgil Ardelean's resignation leaves things up to the law a whole gang of protegees the former director of the Intelligence department within the Ministry of Interior used to have. The Fox's traditional friends - businessmen, prosecutors or officers from Transylvania - will struggle hard to install at the head of UM 0962 someone able to protect them. This way, tens of revealing about the frauds they had committed will get on their tracks and might bring them before the Courts. Among those who benefited of the Fox's umbrella were the former head of PNA (National Anti-corruption Parquet) Ioan Moldovan, Terente Merce - with his ties Adrian Tarau, Sorin Micula, Farkas Stefan, Radu Pentie; the Farmec Cosmetics manager Liviu Turdean and the list continue. If, in the case of the heads of SRI (Romanian Intelligence Service) and SIE (Foreign Intelligence Service) the die isn't cast yet, and they are likely to get back in office, in Ardelean's case, the resignation is operational. Minister of Interior, Vasile Blaga, announced he already found a substitute. He assured it was none of the 28 nominations circulated by the media. The minister of Interior stressed he would first talk with PM Tariceanu on his proposition and only after that he would make public the identity of the Ardelean's successor. The fox's cubs remained exposed for the time being, should not ignore the way their protector will take. According to sources, should the Fox refuse a consular position in the diplomacy, Basescu will offer him a newly created position of a Deputy State Secretary to co-ordinate all the bodies of the Ministry of Administration and Interior in Transylvania, Banat, Crisana and Maramures.

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