Court to decide on mayor Oprescu’s challenge to preventive arrest on September 14
The Bucharest Court of Appeal will judge on September 14 the appeal Bucharest General Mayor Sorin Oprescu filed to the decision to have him placed...
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Head of Antifraud Directorate prosecuted for influence peddling
Romeo Florin Nicolae, Head of the ANAF’s General Antifraud Directorate, is prosecuted for influence peddling. He allegedly demanded EUR 5,000 from a businessman in 2010,...
Former Constitutional Court judge Toni Grebla indicted
The former justice with the Constitutional Court of Romania Toni Grebla was indicted by the prosecutors of the National Anti-corruption Directorate (DNA), a release by...
Whilst under arrest, Mayor Oprescu does not resign
The Mayor of Bucharest, Sorin Oprescu, currently under arrest for 30 days, sent a message from the lockups of Bucharest Police, via his lawyer, Monday...
Chief Prosecutor of DNA on the case of Mayor Oprescu: “The procedure of catching in the act was not applied”
Head Prosecutor of DNA Laura Codruta Kovesi offered on Tuesday, before the weekly meeting of the Superior Council of Magistracy (CSM) a series of information...
Oprescu, last interview before being arrested: “Not all of us are thieves”
Sorin Oprescu has offered an interview to journalist Ioana Raduca, a few hours before being arrested by prosecutors who found he was carrying a sum...
Oprescu case in the forefront: National Integrity Agency starts verification of Bucharest General Mayor’s assets
The National Integrity Agency (ANI) has initiated the verification of the assets of Bucharest Mayor Sorin Oprescu, sources inside the Agency informed Agerpres. Oprescu was...
Bucharest Mayor Sorin Oprescu arrested for 30 days
The Tribunal of Bucharest placed city’s mayor Sorin Oprescu under preventive arrest for 30 days, in a late Sunday night decision in a bribery case...
Reactions to Sorin Oprescu’s remand for bribe taking
Sorin Oprescu’s arrest on Sunday morning surprised everybody and was the breaking news that overwhelmed the public opinion. As anyone could expect, the subject, one...
Bucharest’s General Mayor Sorin Oprescu remanded in custody by anticorruption prosecutors
Prosecutors with the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) have remanded in custody Bucharest General Mayor Sorin Oprescu, after he was caught red-handed receiving money constituting a...
Former counterintelligence chief Melescanu testifies in case implicating a military doctor
Former chief of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SIE) Teodor Melescanu on Friday morning showed up at the headquarters of the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA). Judiciary...
Premier Victor Ponta heard by anticorruption prosecutors
Premier Victor Ponta showed up at the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) on Thursday in order to be heard in the “Turceni-Rovinari” case in which he...
Former anti-mafia prosecutor Bica , former Fiscal Administration head Pop under arrest for 30 days
Former chief of the Directorate for the Investigation of Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) Alina Bica and former head of the National Fiscal Administration Agency...
Traian Basescu heard at the General Prosecution Office in Gabriela Firea’s file: Legal classification changed from blackmail to threat
Former President Traian Basescu said Wednesday, upon leaving the General Prosecution Service, that prosecutors changed the classification of the offence in the court case implicating...
Alina Bica back in handcuffs: Former chief prosecutor is charged in new corruption affair
Ex-DIICOT Chief-Prosecutor Alina Bica was detained for 24 hours by the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) in a new corruption case on Tuesday. Bica was charged...
Former anti-mafia head Alina Bica stays further under court supervision
Former head of the Directorate for the Investigation of Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) Alina Bica stays further under court supervision after the High Court...
Ponta contradicts DNA: No damage to Romanian State; Sova didn’t pay 51,000 lei, but I did
Prime Minister Victor Ponta on Wednesday evening said that the Romanian state sustained no damage, as the 51,000 lei fees mentioned in the fiscal and...
DNA: Expertise reveals 51,000 lei tax evasion with complicity of PM Ponta
The National Anti-corruption Directorate (DNA) on Wednesday informed that according to an expertise the damage caused with the alleged complicity of Premier Victor Ponta to...
Prime Minister shows up at DNA to take note about expertise in the Rovinari-Turceni file
Prime Minister Victor Ponta on Wednesday showed up at the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA), as he had been summoned in a corruption case regarding the...
Prosecutors detain female drug trafficker, seize 1 kilo of heroin worth 55,000 euro
Prosecutors of the Directorate for the Investigation of Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) on Tuesday detained a woman for trafficking high-risk drugs, after she was...
Prahova Police beheaded: Chief anticorruption officer, deputy police inspector, organised crime officer handcuffed
Head of the Prahova County Anticorruption Service (SJA) with the Anticorruption Directorate General (DGA) Constantin Ispas, Deputy Chief Inspector of the Prahova County Police Inspectorate...
Bucharest organised crime prosecutors dismantle migrant smuggling ring
Prosecutors with the Bucharest branch of the Directorate for Investigation of Organised Crime and Terrorrism (DIICOT), together with officers of the Brigade against Organised Crime...
Head of Prahova County Anticorruption Service, a suspected bent cop moving to thwart disturbing investigations
Head of the Prahova County Anticorruption Service reporting to the Anticorruption General Directorate (DGA) Constantin Ispas has allegedly repeatedly received money to start investigations against...
Vaslui rape: All seven indicted young men sentenced to prison. Court decides to issue 30-day arrest warrants
All seven youths of Valeni accused of raping a student in November 2014 were sentenced to prison in a first trial by the Court of...
Marathon hearings at DNA Ploiesti in a file involving local officials and police officers
DNA hears deputy head of IJP Prahova on suspicions of forcing confessions under threat (sources) Deputy head of the Prahova Police County Inspectorate (IJP)...
IGPR: 129 persons reported in Schengen Information System, tracked down over the past week
Romanian policemen tracked down this week on Romania’s territory a number of 129 persons reported in the Schengen Information System and enforced nine European arrest...
595 persons on international watch list, arrested in H1 2015
Policemen arrested in the first six months of this year a number of 595 persons whom the Romanian authorities had reported the international watch list,...
Superior Council of Magistracy notifies Judicial Inspection after Liberal leaders’ statements
The Superior Council of Magistracy (CSM) announced Thursday that it notified the Judicial Inspection to ascertain a possible infringement of the independence of prosecutors and...
Some 250 unionists boo Justice Minister at protest of penitentiary workers
The National Penitentiaries Workers Union (SNLP) gathered some 250 members in a protest in front of the Justice Ministry on Thursday, asking for the filling...
Penitentiary workers protest, ask for full pay of 8-month arrears
Approximately 500 members of the National Penitentiaries Workers Union (SNLP) will stage a protest on Thursday, from 9am to 11am, in front of the Justice...