FBI arrests Romanian businessman in the US for bribe

The FBI recently arrested Romanian investor Dumitru Martin, who is a shareholder in the company Polaris Constanta, which provides sanitation services in Constanta. Martin has allegedly tried to bribe an officer in the US Air Force to get a USD 10.3 million contract at the US military base in Kogalniceanu, near Constanta, reports local Mediafax. The FBI arrested him on December 1, on the International Airport in San Francisco. Undercover FBI agents had invited him to San Francisco, after introducing themselves as intermediaries in the deal. Polaris M Holding paid USD 100,000 three months ago to a US officer, who was cooperating with the FBI. The amount represented the last installment of a bribe worth of over USD 1 million. The Romanian company wanted to supply transport and storage services to the US forces stationed at the Mihail Kogalniceanu base in Romania. Dumitru Martin’s nephew, Eduard Martin, is a deputy in Romania’s Parliament. Eduard Martin, who is also a shareholder in Polaris Constanta, has been indicted by Romania’s anticorruption prosecutors for bribing Constanta’s mayor Radu Mazare, to get public contracts from the municipality. editor@romania-insider.com