LAW & CRIME

Judge Lia Savonea, seen as being close to the Social-Democratic Party, has been validated on Wednesday by the plenum of the Superior Council of Magistracy for the office of CSM chairperson. Savonea was the only candidate for this position. Prosecutor ...

Suspects of tax evasion will get rid of the charges in their criminal record if one of them pays the total damages, according to an amendment adopted to the Tax evasion law by the deputies on Tuesday. The amendment have ...

An emergency ordinance on the Criminal Codes would mean judicial conflict of constitutional nature between the Government and the Parliament, because the Parliament has started the debate on the normative act and no one may take it away, former Constitutional ...

First lady Carmen Iohannis has been subpoenaed on Monday to the Prosecutor General’s Office in a file opened following a denouncement regarding the money collected by renting an apartment house, but the President’s wife has failed to come to the ...

A civil-law five-judge panel has postponed all ten trials before the Supreme Court on Monday, among whom there were also the trials of judge Camelia Bogdan, of former DNA head Laura Codruta Kovesi, of ex-minister Elena Udrea, or former DIICOT ...

Former Social Democrat and tycoon Sebastian Ghita has reported the ex-DNA chief prosecutor Laura Codruta Kovesi to the Section investigating magistrates, for setting up an organized criminal group. The businessman claim that Kovesi would have asked him to pay the ...

ALDE Deputy Steluta Cataniciu has lost the court case opened at the European Court for Human Rights (ECHR) against Romania after the National Integrity Agency (ANI) has ruled that the MP had been in conflict of interests on administrative matters ...

Turkish journalist Kamil Demirkaya, employed at Zaman Romania publication, who had been taken into custody by the Romanian authorities while facing extradition, has been heard at the Bucharest Court of Appeal on Thursday, saying he is opposing the extradition and ...

Turkish journalist Kamil Demirkaya, employed at Zaman Romania publication, former general manager of Zaman Bulgaria, has been taken in from his house by the police this morning, based on an extradition request. He is charged with being a member of ...

Andreea Cosma, PSD Prahova deputy, the daughter of the influential Social Democrat local leader Mircea Cosma (former chairman of the Prahova County Council), has been sentenced to 4 years in prison. The ruling, pronounced in first court by the Supreme ...