Romgaz has decided to file, through its subsidiary involved in the Neptun Deep project, a lawsuit seeking the dissolution of the Greenpeace CEE (Central Eastern Europe) Romania Foundation, as it is insolvent and used as a front by another legal entity with the same name, in order to evade any form of patrimonial liability provided for by law, announced the Minister of Energy, Sebastian Burduja, on his Facebook page on Friday.
„We said from the very beginning that we will fight to the end for the public interest of our country, for energy security and the well-being of Romanians. And that is what we are doing. We will not be intimidated by threats, resignation requests, lies and insults on the conveyor belt. We have taken note of the fact that Romgaz has decided to formulate, through its subsidiary involved in the Neptun Deep project, a lawsuit seeking the dissolution of the Greenpeace CEE (Central Eastern Europe) Romania Foundation. The lawsuit was filed with the 1st District Court (file no. 17337/299/2025),” Burduja noted.
In the minister’s opinion, this is a legal, fair and moral approach, a first for Romania.
„The law allows free access to justice and grants Greenpeace active legal standing to challenge billion-euro projects. Correspondingly, when the litigious actions prove unfounded, these NGOs must be able to at least be liable for the legal costs, if the court decides to do so. This is the law and no one is above it. In the present case, through civil sentences no. 667/2025 and 4887/2025, the claims made by the Greenpeace Foundation against the Neptun Deep Project were rejected, the NGO being obliged to pay 380,000 lei as legal costs to the project owners. Following the initiation of the forced execution, Romgaz found that Greenpeace Romania is insolvent, having no assets, movable or immovable property, cash, or any account opened at banking institutions. „Transparency and fairness? Unfortunately, no. Taxes paid for any lucrative activities? No. Everything masked, disguised under the form of another entity,” the official added.
According to him, Romgaz found that the donations requested from the public to finance Greenpeace’s activity in Romania are collected by another foundation, also called Greenpeace CEE (Central Eastern Europe) Romania, but with a different CIF.
„The Greenpeace CEE (Central Eastern Europe) Romania Foundation is insolvent, being used as a front by another legal entity with the same name to evade any form of patrimonial liability provided for by law. Given the insolvency and duplicitous purpose of the Greenpeace CEE (Central Eastern Europe) Romania Foundation, Romgaz, through the subsidiary involved in the Neptun Deep project, considered that the legal conditions for the dissolution of the Greenpeace CEE (Central Eastern Europe) Romania Foundation are met, according to Government Ordinance no. 26/2000. I congratulate and encourage my colleagues at Romgaz to fight to the end for Romania, for respect for the law and the interests of Romanians,” he added.
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