LAW & CRIME

The special committee set up to amend the justice laws, the so-called Iordache law (by the name of the committee’s chairman Florin Iordache, former justice minister who initiated the controversial GEO 13 that stirred large mass protests in Romania last ...

The Judicial Inspectorate has issued new disciplinary action, the third, against Laura Codruta Kovesi, Chief Prosecutor of the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA), for violating the provisions of the Constitutional Court’s decision, by refusing to show before Parliament – the Special ...

Anti-corruption prosecutors from Galati (eastern Romania) have detained for 24 hours the director of the Danube Seaport director, Marius Luigi Ciubrei, for bribe taking. He is suspected of receiving bribe in several occasions for staff hiring within the institution, more ...

Former Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the national television, TVR News, Teodor Brateş, who, in the early days of the Revolution, launched the messages announcing the existence of terrorists or the fact that water is poisoned, has been officially charged in the ...

The National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) has sent on Wednesday, under the signature of chief prosecutor Laura Codruta Kovesi, to the Prosecutor General’s Office upon the High Court for Cassation and Justice (ICCJ – Supreme Court) the case report in view ...

Former President Ion Iliescu went Tuesday morning to the Prosecutor General’s Office. He was summoned to be informed that he is prosecuted in the Revolution File for committing crimes against humanity. Iliescu was waited by numerous journalists, but made no ...

The brother of Bogdan Despescu, former chief of the Romanian Police, was found hanged by his wife, in his house in Nehoiu, Buzau County (eastern Romania). Florin Despescu, 47, committed suicide on the night of Saturday to Sunday, but the ...

Labour minister, Olguta Vasilescu, has been heard at the General Prosecutor’s Office on Monday in a case related to EU-funded works. The claimant says the city hall of Craiova, led by Olguta Vasilescu at that time did not have permit ...

“#rezist” message, the logo that became famous during Romania’s anti-corruption protests last year, has been imaged on the Museum of Art building in Bucharest during the Spotlight festival on Friday. The Police identified the one that screened the message from ...

Sergiu Diacomantu, former Vice President of the National Agency for Property Restitution (ANRP), is in Costa Rica. He reportedly left the country on April 9 and has not returned, according to sources quoted by antena3.ro. The last photo he posted ...