Clever Media Network, which runs Prima TV, asked the National Broadcasting Council to revoke the license and suspend Realitatea Plus after producer Anca Alexandrescu allegedly made several “extremely serious” allegations without presenting “even a single piece of evidence”. ” in the episode of the show “Behind the scenes of a parallel state” from November 22, reports Pagina de Media.

“The director and guests on the set made serious, image-damaging accusations against the company and CMN shareholders. For almost 90 minutes, extremely serious accusations, including criminal ones, were made on the screen without providing any proof, all of which were lies and slander,” the company’s press release said.

The company controlled by Adrian Thomsey is publicly asking CNA “to fulfill its duties as guarantor of the public interest and sole regulatory body in the field of audiovisual communication and to withdraw the audiovisual license/suspend the broadcast of the station Realitatea Plus”.

Clever Media Network condemns the “campaign of defamation and slander” which is “initiated and supported, including financially, by certain organizations that are ready to do everything to stop the acquisition of Telekom Mobile by a Romanian company.”

What Anka Alexandrescu said in the Realitatea Plus show

According to Pagina de Media, CMN’s reaction comes after Anca Alexandrescu announced at the beginning of the show that she would broadcast the investigation of journalist Liviu Alex.

Before the broadcast of the investigation, Alexandrescu spoke of “some smart guys who in recent years first rolled out a cable network and then bought television after television.”

“You will see from this investigation that these days these guys are taking over Telekom, you know, that’s the phone company that was bought by the former Romtelecom,” Anka Alexandrescu said.

“From this investigation it appears that they have a lot of money that is connected to Viktor Orbán from Hungary, maybe they are also connected to the Russians, I don’t know. A large number of debts, escape from banks, huge sums.

“These guys seem like faceless millionaires, but tonight we will show them to you thanks to the journalist Livius Alexi, who conducted an extraordinary investigation. (…) some smart guys who pack a big punch these days.”

Sale of Telekom Mobile: Greek group OTE signed a memorandum with a company controlled by Adrian Thomsi, owner of Clever Media

Greek group OTE announced on Tuesday at the Athens Stock Exchange that it has negotiated and signed a memorandum with Quantum Projects Group, controlled by Adrian Tomsi, owner of media group Clever Media, for the full sale of Telekom Mobile Romania.

• “In this context, OTE has been in talks with Quantum Projects Group, controlled by Adrian Tomsha, owner of media group Clever Media, regarding the latter’s interest in acquiring TKRM.
• The parties signed a Memorandum of Understanding to facilitate this process and submitted it to the competent authorities of Romania for approval,” OTE said in a statement.

Documentation regarding the acquisition of Telekom Mobile Romania by Quantum Projects has been submitted to the Competition Council.

The president of the body, Bohdan Chiritsoyu, told HotNews.ro that the transaction will also be analyzed from the point of view of state security, and a decision will be made, most likely, early next year.

Clever Group is one of the most important players in the Romanian media market with 11 TV channels in its complete portfolio (Profit News, Prima TV, Prima Sport 1, 2 and 3, Prima News, Prima Comedy, Agro TV, Medika TV). , Cinemaraton and Cinemaest), 7 sites (profit.ro, primatv.ro, primanews.ro, primasport.ro, agro-tv.ro, lookmedica.ro, servuscluj.ro) and the PrimaPlay platform, according to Profit.ro.

The main shareholder of Telekom Romania Mobile is the Greek group OTE, which, in turn, is owned by the German group Deutsche Telekom by 46%.