LAW & CRIME

Judge Mihai Bălănescu has been assigned to take over Colectiv case on Tuesday after the magistrate who took care of the case until August, Mihail Terceanu had retired. The first 25 witnesses will be heard at the next hearing, while ...

Venice Commission has published the report on the amendments brought to the justice laws and criminal codes in Romania on Monday, with the European experts slamming the Parliament’s amendments. “The focus in public debate regarding the proposed amendments to the ...

Justice Minister Tudorel Toader wrote on Sunday in a Facebook post that the emergency ordinance adopted by the Government to amend the laws of justice cannot be applied retroactively, so that “it does not affect the stability of prosecutors gained ...

The constructor of Lot 3 of the A1 Sibiu – Orastie motorway, a section closed to traffic following the crumbling of a part of the motorway shortly after the inauguration and which was later rebuilt from scratch, would have to ...

Romania was sentenced on Thursday, by the European Union Court of Justice, for failing to fulfill the directive regarding the landfills, according to which the authorities should have closed down 68 non-complying landfills until July 16, 2009. The ruling comes ...

The Ombudsman has announced that he has delegated the authority to one of his deputies, however the power to notify the Constitutional Court is excepted. The exception is reportedly confirmed by one of the CCR decisions which reads that ‘the ...

Former National Agency for Fiscal Administration (ANAF) head, Sorin Blejnar, was sentenced on Thursday to 6 years in prison, in a file in which he is charged with RON 12,513,894 bribe taking. The decision may be subject to appeal. The ...

Former Tourism Minister Elena Udrea and former DIICOT chief, Alina Bica, have been imprisoned in the El Buen Pastor penitentiary, named since 2017 Vilma Curling Rivera, Costa Rican newspaper diarioextra.com reports. The report reads that the two women spent lots ...

Prosecutor General, Augustin Lazar (photo), has sent on Wednesday, to the Ombudsman, the request to refer the Emergency Ordinance on the laws of justice to the Constitutional Court. The request is reasoned by the unconstitutionality of article VII of the ...

The prosecutors section within the Superior Council of Magistracy has unanimously decided to recommend that the provisions of the emergency ordinance on the justice laws is enforced for the future, CSM vice-president Codrut Olaru said. He added that, in the ...