Each member of the tobacco company Tutun-CTC's Board received annual bonuses of about 193,000 lei, as shown by excerpts from their salary receipts. The money was paid despite earlier official denials of press reports that the company was going to pay bonuses of 120,000 lei. Info-Prim Neo received documents showing that each Board member was paid a net bonus of 192,733 lei, or 150,305 lei after taxes. On June 1, Info-Prim Neo published an article about Tutun-CTC's plans to pay 120,000 lei bonuses to each of its Board members, which amounted to a total 600,000 lei, or 4.5% of the net profit earned by the company in 2010. The minutes of the General Assembly, on which the agency relied, also showed that the company's ordinary staff were going to receive bonuses of 1,000 lei, which amounted to 1 million lei, or 7.5% of the annual profit. The Board is composed of a representative of the Ministry of Economy, a representative of the Ministry of Finance, and three representatives of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry. On June 3, Info-Prim Neo published another story, titled {“Ministry of Agriculture: Information about remuneration of members of Tutun CTC Board is a denigration attempt”}, in which the Ministry of Agriculture and Food industry was quoted as saying: “We consider that the hasty information spread by a number of media outlets is nothing but an attempt to denigrate the Ministry, which is political in character and made by order.” “Prime Minister Vlad Filat, in the Government’s meeting of May 25, expressed his surprise at this decision and ordered that the case be examined. The company's Board was instructed to raise the issue of net profit distribution in one of the extraordinary general assemblies of shareholders. Even if the general assembly’s decision is absolutely legal and in accordance with the regulations concerning the representation of the state in commercial organizations (which were approved by Government Decision No. 1053 of November 11, 2010), none of the members of the Board have yet taken the yearly recompense. Thus, there is no reason to condemn actions that did not take place”, it was said in the Ministry's press release. “The Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry reasserts its support for Prime Minister Vlad Filat’s proposal to limit the inflated monthly pays of the managers of state-run companies and companies in which the state has majority interest. The Ministry warns the annual lump sum recompense of the Board’s members should not be mixed up with the monthly salary of the directors of state-owned companies. It informs that it allowed no inflated salaries at the institutions that are under its control”, the Ministry said.