Chapter 73 Rectification of State-owned Enterprises
After inspecting the new aircraft at the Koanda aircraft factory, Eder returned to the palace.
"Your Highness, this is the report of the expansion of the Constanta Iron and Steel Works."
Eder, who had just returned to the palace and had just landed on his chair, saw a guard come in with an application document and hand it to the crown prince.
Edel took the report and rubbed his temples as he spoke. "I'll take a look first."
"Your Highness, why don't you take a rest first?" The guard said when he saw the tired crown prince.
"No, you go out first, I'll take a look."
After receiving an answer from the crown prince, the guards walked out of the office. Edel picked up the expansion report and looked at it.
In the report, Duz Wigan, the general manager of the steel plant, writes: Thanks to the construction of numerous factories in Romania in recent years, especially the consumption of the Volkswagen plant, the steel plant is now running at full capacity. The supply of steel to Romania has reached its limit, and funds are needed to expand production capacity. Because it is a state-owned enterprise that needs to hand over its profits, and the government is now short of funds, it is not enough to get the crown prince to approve the factory to intercept the funds.
"Isn't that the responsibility of the government department? Why did it come to me? When Edel saw the application report, he thought to himself. If you don't understand, let someone who knows, and the crown prince called the guards and asked him to call the Minister of Industry, Karaturi, to come over tomorrow.
The next day, the Minister of Industry, Karaturi, came to the Crown Prince's office. "I've seen Your Highness."
"Karaturi, why is this construction report on my desk?" Eder asked him about the Duz Wigan report.
"Your Highness, can you show me first?" The Minister of Industry, who was a little confused, asked.
"Let's take a look." With that, Edel handed him the report. After reading the report at a glance, Carrastu smiled and spoke to the crown prince. "That's exactly what I refuse."
"Can you tell us why?" Eder knew that Prime Minister Sturre's nephew was also a shrewd and capable man, and there must be a reason why he refused.
"In fact, the main reason is that Duzwigan did not write in the report that the purchase of smelting equipment this time is to buy Italian products, and it is second-hand equipment, and the price is 50% of that of Germany."
"You go on." Edel looked at Carrastu, who looked at him with a confident face, and continued to ask.
"It stands to reason that the price is reasonable. However, I learned that the equipment was a bit backward this time. It is equipment that the Taranto steel plant is ready to phase out, and I don't think it will be of much use to Romania, so it is not approved. I didn't expect to bypass me and hand over this construction report to the crown prince. ”
After listening to Karaturi's words, Eder had a little judgment in his heart.
"Call Milok to come over."
After seeing off the Minister of Industry, Eder explained to the guards.
Not long after, after Milok came to the crown prince's office to salute, the intelligence chief asked. "Your Highness, you look for me."
"I've got something for you to do this time."
Edel tells Milok about the expansion of the steel plant.
"Does Your Highness want me to investigate this Duzwigan?"
"Yes."
"I'll put his report on His Highness's desk soon."
After sending off the intelligence chief, Edel wondered if someone was out of their mind.
After receiving the task from the crown prince, Milok returned to his office and gave instructions to one of his men. "Call Shirka over."
"Director, you call me." The ordinary-looking Shilka in civilian clothes asked lazily as she came in.
"Yes, I have a task for you here." Miloch pretended not to see his attitude.
"What is the big task?"
Milok told Shirka what the crown prince had asked him to do.
"Head, you can give such a small task to those newcomers, and they can complete it too."
It can be seen that this Shilka is very favored by Milok.
"That's my request." In the face of his ace subordinates, it was rare for Milok not to get angry.
"Then after this mission, head, you have to give me a few days off." This one also took advantage of his nose to get on his face.
"What are you going to do?"
"I'm going to go on a trip and relax."
"Okay, but I'll see it on my desk the next morning." Milok makes it a little more difficult for his subordinates.
"Minor problem."
Seeing this Shilka, who gave him a bit of a headache, Milok thought in his heart that if you weren't efficient, you would have been asked to clean the toilet a long time ago.
This time, the crown prince asked him to do something, which made Milok value his performance in front of the crown prince. Everyone knows that King Carroll is delegating power to the crown prince, and now Milok has a thorough understanding of the crown prince's character. This highness is very interested in the ability of his subordinates, and if you look at the people promoted by the crown prince, you can know that there is no ability that cannot be as good as his eyes. Previously, the crown prince handed over the general intelligence work to his chief of guard. This makes Milok feel very dangerous, and it is difficult to have a safe retirement when doing intelligence work. Now this is an opportunity, he wants to let the crown prince see his ability, so he has to let his ace go to investigate a small mission.
Mirok's favourite ace lived up to his expectations and handed him the report the next evening. Millock looked at the report in his hand, and in his heart he felt incredulous at the greed of this Mr. Duzwigan.
In the usual factory to eat and take cards, the expansion project was caused by an Italian businessman. Previously, the businessman contacted Duzwigan after buying equipment from Taranto Iron Works that he intended to obsolete, intending to sell it to Constanta Iron and Steel Works at a second-hand price. In it, Mr. Duzwigan received 70% of the difference, while the Italian businessman took only 30%. It's no wonder that he still intends to steal the time to deliver it after Minister Carrastu's refusal. It's really money that blinds him, and he doesn't even have enough IQ.
After Miloc got this investigation report, he immediately entered the palace to report to Eder. After hearing Miloc's report. Edel was amazed, he could now understand the strange behavior of domestic officials that he had seen in his previous life, it was not a matter of intelligence, it was just something tempting that blinded his eyes.
Edel looked at the investigative report in his hand and spoke to Miloc. "You go and handle this case, and get all the money he took back."
"Yes, Your Highness."
After seeing Milok go down, Edel sat down in his chair and let out a long sigh.
Overnight, Milok had the men in Constanta arrest Duzwigan, as well as the Italian merchant. Where are the two opponents of the intelligence officers, after a little interrogation, they poured beans and told everything.
In the more than three years since he took office, this Duzwigan has used his position to embezzle more than 4 million lei in total. He also arranged his relatives in various departments with sufficient oil and water, and if it were not for the fact that the production of the steel plant could not meet the needs of Romania, they would have been discovered long ago.
"Carrastu, you send men to thoroughly inspect all the state-owned factories. I'll tell Milok to help you in the dark. With Milok in his hand the interrogation report, the crown prince said to the Minister of Industry who had been called.
"Yes, Your Highness."
After sending Carrastu away, Eder summoned Viscount Edri, the head of the court.
"What does Your Highness command?"
"You also send someone to check our royal family's factory."
"Yes, Your Highness."
With Eder's order, every state-run and royal factory ushered in inspectors, making some people with unclean hands secretly anxious in their hearts.
During the inspection, a total of five factory supervisors were interrogated and investigated for large sums of money. Nine were warned in writing for the return of the embezzled amount because the amount was not large.
Finally, after a month and a half of inventory, the atmosphere of each enterprise was reversed. Through this investigation, it is also a warning to the officials, and if you can check the state-owned enterprises, you can also check you. Many officials in the government have also put their hands down a little, which can be regarded as a bit of an example to the monkeys.