Daniel Boldor

Daniel Boldor (born Daniel Cristian Boldor) is a businessman from Baia Mare, Romania, and the CEO of Exiteco SRL, who has been accused of fraud and forgery after his company sold thousands of tons of mining sludge to international metal traders as "gold [or copper] concentrate".

Background Boldor, a member of the Roma community, grew up in , a village south of Baia Mare in the Satulung commune. In 2001, aged 24, Boldor travelled to West London, where he worked in the construction trade. His first job was demolishing bathrooms and kitchens in the Harrow and Notting Hill neighborhoods. By 2007, he had set up his own construction firm, operating across the UK, and he brought his four younger brothers from Romania to manage his various building sites. His projects included refurbishing the 100-room Enterprise Hotel in Earls Court and renovating the Harrow Central Mosque. For decades, Roma had made a living selling scrap metal from the same facilities. The containers were supposed to contain copper concentrate, However, when environmental regulators in Shanghai performed a customs check on one container, they found black rubble littered with chunks of concrete rubble and rusty bottle caps. Upon testing, the material was found to contain unsafe levels of cadmium and arsenic, a mark of possible mining waste rather than "ore concentrate". After being turned away at ports in Thailand and Malaysia, and a year of languishing in the docks in Hong Kong, authorities shipped the materials back to Romania, where it sat in an industrial park in Constanța. A second company headed by Brașov businessman Cristian Eftinca holds the other 60% and plans to develop the lands into a photovoltaic park and the remaining 351.4-meter tall Cuprom chimney into a tourist attraction as the tallest chimney in Romania and third tallest in Europe.