After a request to suspend the license of the Realitatea Plus TV channel, the Clever Media Network company, which manages the Prima TV channel, on Friday called on all parties to stop funding from the state budget of media structures controlled by the group. by Maricel Păcuraru.

The company controlled by Adrian Tomši publicly asked CNA to “fulfill its duties as guarantor of the public interest and the sole regulatory body in the field of audiovisual communication and withdraw the audiovisual license/suspend the broadcast of Realitatea Plus”, after producer Anka Alexandrescu put forward several “extraordinary serious” accusations without presenting “at least a single piece of evidence” in the November 22 issue of “Behind the Scenes of a Parallel State”.

Clever Media Network condemned the “slander and slander campaign” 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.”

“We believe that it is very harmful for the media market in Romania and for society in general, the fact that these entities from the Realitatea Plus group receive hundreds of thousands of euros annually from the state budget through political parties, money that mainly finances these illegal and concerted media lynching campaigns,” Clever Media Network said in a statement, as quoted by Profit.ro, which is part of the Clever group.

The group claims that Realitatea Plus is “making accusations without providing any evidence! the shareholders’ request is based “on the fact that CNA’s decision to stop broadcasting for 10 minutes was upheld by a final decision of the High Court of Cassation and “on the numerous fines imposed by CNA on television in recent years . Fines paid from our money, all citizens of this country. Money that goes to the Realitatea Plus group through political parties.”

After the Greek group OTE announced on Tuesday on the Athens Stock Exchange that it had negotiated and signed a memorandum with Quantum Projects Group, controlled by Adrian Tomsi, owner of the media group Clever Media, for the full sale of Telekom Mobile Romania, Anca In an issue of the program “Parallel State behind the scenes” on November 22, Alexandrescu made many more statements about the agreement.

What Anka Alexandrescu said in the Realitatea Plus show

The director said that some “smart people” are involved here, who are “connected to Viktor Orbán from Hungary, maybe they are also connected to the Russians.”

According to Pagina de Media, Anca Alexandrescu has announced that she will broadcast the investigation made by journalist Liviu Alexa before these allegations.

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

The Quantum Projects group, controlled by Adrian Tomshay, the owner of the media group Clever Media, has signed an agreement to acquire 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 have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to facilitate this process and have submitted it to the competent authorities of Romania for approval,” OTE reports.

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%.