Orban wants to make the foundation of the "Orphan Mogul of Romania" public utility. The foundation, accused in a documentary of experiments on children in Romania
A draft Government decision was posted on the website of the Ministry of Labor, led by Violeta Alexandru, and the project is in public debate until February 12, 2020. The foundation note and the draft Government decision, assumed by Prime Minister Ludovic Orban, Deputy Prime Minister Raluca Turcan, as well as the ministers Violeta Alexandru, Vasile Florin Cî?u and Marian C?t?lin Predoiu, show that they declare as "of public utility" the "Sera Romania" Foundation, which requested this from the General Secretariat of the Government and which invested in Romania during the period 1996-2019, in the child protection programs about 85 million euros.
The SERA Foundation (Solidarity with Abandoned Romanian Children) is founded in the 1990s by the banker Francois Polge de Combret, investigated by several authorities in a huge corruption scandal, the Combret Frenchman being over time extremely interested in children. orphans from Romania and making a very strong lobby in Brussels.
The SERA Foundation (Solidarity with Abandoned Romanian Children) also appears in a documentary broadcast on 2009 on German WDR television, “Find me a child, I pay cash. Lobby for international adoptions ", in which are presented the pressures made to European officials for the resumption by Romania of international adoptions and it was even accused that it financed, together with American universities, the program" Project for Adoption ", carried out at the Saint Catherine Center in Bucharest, through which scientific experiments were carried out on orphaned Romanian children.
The executive director of the SERA Romania Foundation is Bogdan Simion, initially proposed, in the past, even by the former prime minister Dacian Ciolo? to be minister of Labor, but for different reasons Ciolo? has renounced its non-monetization. Bogdan Simion, a wealthy man, was also vice president of CES and, according to his statement of wealth, he also consulted with the Tanner Foundation, the World Bank and the International Bank for Reconstruction.