LAW & CRIME

The chairman of the ruling Social Democrat Party (PSD), Liviu Dragnea, has been sentenced to three years and six months in prison for instigation to abuse of office in the fictitious hiring file, while his former wife, Bombonica Prodana, prosecuted ...

The head of the Supreme Court (The High Court of Cassation and Justice), Cristina Tarcea has notified the General Prosecutor’s Office over the protocol concluded by the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI) with the Prosecutor’s Office and the Supreme Court, arguing ...

The Judicial Inspectorate accuses Prosecutor General, Augustin Lazar, of violating the magistrates’ deontological code, after naming the MPs with the special committees ‘high ranking defenders’, in a report filed to the Prosecutors Section of the Superior Council of Magistracy (CSM). ...

A Tunisian citizen was declared, on Wednesday, by the Bucharest Court of Appeals, an undesirable person for Romania, at the Romanian Intelligence Service’s (SRI) referral, after being observed for behaviour specific to a person adhering to the jihadist ideology, SRI ...

The High Court of Cassation and Justice (ICCJ – Supreme Court) 5-judge panel has sentenced former Senator Dan Sova to 3 years in prison in the CET Govora file. The ruling is final. The Supreme Court had a first ruling ...

Romanian Foreign Minister Teodor Melescanu has said on Wednesday he had general talks to his counterpart in Burkina Faso on the case of Romanian Iulian Ghergut, who was kidnapped in this country three years ago, revealing that Ghergut is now ...

Carina Ţurcan, a 44-year old woman from Republic of Moldova, member of the Inter Rao board of directors, has been arrested in Russia, being charged with spying for Romania, TASS informs, quoted by digi24.ro and stirileprotv.ro. ‘Kommersant’ informs that Carina ...

The General Prosecutor’s Office, also known as the Public Ministry, voiced its concern on Tuesday over the latest amendments carried out on the criminal codes, slamming the fact that the MPs have disregarded the proposals and notes advanced by the ...

The Constitutional Court of Romania has rejected on Tuesday the referral filed by President Klaus Iohannis on the amendments of the law regarding the organization of the referendum, CCR sources say. The law stipulates that it is the Government that ...

The Venice Commission has invited Florin Iordache, chair of the special parliamentary committee on justice laws, to explain the amendments to the laws on judicial organization, on magistrates’ statute and criminal codes. Representatives of the Presidency and the Ministry of ...