A less common situation was observed in the town of Mărăcineni in the county of Buzău. The mayor’s son built a supermarket around an electric pole owned by Distributie Energie Electrică, reports TVR news. The building is located on the European road 85 in the direction of Moldova. Even the town hall, which is the owner’s father, would have issued a town planning certificate for the construction of the building without agreement with the electricity distribution company.

Constantin Dumitru, the mayor of Merachinen commune, claims that in 2000 the pole was not in the land register, so we built a shop.

The shop will cause numerous safety issues, as the permitted distance between mains wires and any structure must exceed 12 meters.

Representatives of the electric power industry say that they have received numerous reports to authorities, in particular to the State Construction Inspectorate. “The Buzeu branch has been reporting to the City Hall and the State Building Inspectorate since 2019. In 2020, the City Hall informed us that there is a building permit from 2002, and that for the modernization works that were subsequently carried out without a building permit, the Derzharkhbudinspektsia company informed us that the City Hall is obliged to check compliance with the legal provisions, that is, the City Hall was is obliged to monitor discipline in urban planning, and also the city hall was fined for violations,” he said. – said Andrii Rusu, Elektroenergo public relations department.

The land with an area of ​​over a thousand square meters, on which the store is built, was bought from the city hall in 2000 by the son of the mayor Merachineni for 8,400 euros. The National Integrity Agency found that the mayor violated the legal regime regarding the conflict of interest. Later, his son built a store without agreement with the electricity company, which in this case is a mandatory document.