STB’s judicial administrator, Remus Borza, said on Friday that the company’s employees accumulated about 176,000 medical-leave days in 2025, which he equated to 484 years, and that he plans to notify prosecutors and Romania’s National Health Insurance House. The announcement pushes part of the debate over STB’s restructuring toward sick-leave oversight and public spending. But an aggregate total, however striking, does not itself establish individual fraud.
According to Digi24’s report, Borza alleged that some employees may have worked for travel agencies while registered as being on medical leave. He put the alleged loss at 59 million lei. Those are allegations by the judicial administrator, not findings by prosecutors, the health insurer or a court.
There is a sound public-interest case for examining them. STB is a public transport company, and a claim of that scale warrants explanation and, if referrals are filed, institutional scrutiny. Yet public scrutiny should not turn an aggregate calculation into a verdict on employees. The available material does not state how many employees were included, how the 176,000 days were classified, what benchmark was used for ordinary medical leave, or how the 59 million lei estimate was calculated.
The allegation about work for travel agencies is also not accompanied in the published excerpt by verifiable evidence concerning named individuals. It does not say whether the referrals have already been filed or whether either authority has opened a review. No response from employees, unions or those implicated appears in the supplied material.
The evidence-led conclusion is therefore twofold: Borza has announced a serious allegation and a possible route for official scrutiny, while STB and the authorities need to provide enough underlying data to keep the debate from resting on a dramatic number alone. The next material development would be the filing of the referrals and a response from the competent institutions, alongside the methodology behind the estimates.
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- Digi24 · Source date: 2026-11-13
Independent editorial content. WUA is not affiliated with any political party. 2026-11-13