Block managers themselves included the consumption of late December into the heat bills for January, comes the explanations of Dionisie Antocel, the administrator of Termocom, for the high-price bills for last month. In January there was the so-called gas crisis, the temperature in radiators in Chisinau blocks was 18 degrees less than the norm for almost two weeks. Antocel says the fact that the Chisinau administration canceled the heat compensations has also influenced on the amounts in the bills, Info-Prim Neo reports. “The fact that the block managers diminished the figures for December is a high-scale fraud,” Antocel told a news conference Thursday. “The housing managers register all the consumption. We issue the bill as the block heat meter shows,” explained the Termocom manager. He confirms the gas consumption dwindled 40% in January, but said much fuel oil was consumed then, “which is thrice as expensive.” It was taken from the state's reserve. Antocel says the City Hall “turned the bills issue into a dirty political game.” “It's a diversion of the City Hall to make ordinary people revolt against Termocom and to get dividends in the campaign,” Termocom's manager said. The city hall's housing direction employees are either corrupt, or poorly prepared, he assessed. A block manager from Chisinau, Maria Maleavschi, who submitted Termocom a complaint from her dwellers, rejected the fact that the house managers decide the date to present the figures displayed by heat meters. When asked by Info-Prim Neo, the head of the Housing Direction, Petru Gontea, has said the explanation presented by the supplier is plausible. “Many people in charge with the meters presented the data later, so there were reported 32, 33 and even 34 days for January.” Earlier the Chisinau local administration announced that the bills for the heating in January would be 40% less in amount than in December, because of the fas crisis. But they turned to be 15% more expensive what triggered a wave of complaints. Several electoral contestants have urged the consumers not to pay for the January heating. Dionisie Antocel has also said he will ask to be paid penalties for not adjusting the heat tariff for the last three years and he put the figure at 400 million lei.