"Evenimentul zilei" daily's reporters following journalistic investigations into the case found that Adrian Tarau was involved in a multinational oil smuggling ring through which huge sums of dirty money from suspect operations, drug trafficking included, were laundered, as also shows the report drawn up by prosecutor Alexandru Lele when in charge of the case. Our reporters also found that American company Intersis Corporation, the supplier of all oil importers in northeastern Romania, Adrian Tarau included, as well as of firms in Hungary, Ukraine or Slovakia, was not found in the records of the US Internal Revenue Service. The son of former Bihor county prefect was on the payroll of Intersis Corporation, with the gas import from Slovakia, which was illegally declared as kerosen import in order to benefit of VAT and road tax exemption, being carried out through Intersis Corporation's southeastern European branch in Budapest. Sources with the secret services said Intersis Corporation was allegedly controlled by Russian trafficker Victor Bout, who is suspected of having supplied terrorist organisation Al-Quaeda with weapons.