corruption

The National Anti-corruption Directorate (DNA) has asked the Presidency to give the green light for the criminal prosecution of Calin Popescu Tariceanu for corruption charges allegedly committed when he was Prime Minister (2007-2008).…

Anti-corruption prosecutors have discovered bribes of EUR 1.2 million hidden in buckets, basins and even in walls during searches at the Driving License and Vehicle Registration offices in Suceava. Sums of money have also been found in the…

Daniel Tudorache, former mayor of Bucharest District 1 city hall, has been placed under judicial control on Saturday morning, after he had been heard by the anti-corruption prosecutors all night long. Investigators decided a bail of EUR 1…

5 years since the Colectiv fire are commemorated today, October 30. The tragic fire in a nightclub in Bucharest five years ago claimed 64 lives and left hundreds injured. President Klaus Iohannis has laid a wreath at the venue of the…

In addressing cybersecurity experts at Thursday's Romanian Community Emergency Response Team (CERT-RO) virtual Annual Conference, Ambassador Adrian Zuckerman thanked them for their work securing infrastructure, detecting threats, and…

In a video message sent to the Aspen Institute Bucharest Forum, the U.S. Ambassador to Romania, Adrian Zuckerman referred to the recently held local elections, stating that "the Romanian people continue to unshackle themselves from the…

Former tycoon and Social Democrat MP, Sebastian Ghiță, who fled to Serbia in 2016 to get rid of the arrest in Romania, has been seen next to his family and friends in Mykonos, one of the most expensive travel destinations in the Aegean Sea,…

Former head of the Directorate for Investigating Organised Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) Alina Bica has been detained in Italy after being on the run in the past 2 years. LATEST: An Italian court had ruled on Monday, July 13, that…

How the future is seen by youngsters? Half of the generation aged 18 to 19 (around 1.3 million people) believes that the pandemic will affect their plans for the future, reads the latest IRSOP poll conducted on 712 youngsters aged from…

Former leader of the Social Democratic Party, Liviu Dragnea, serving a sentence of 3 years and a half in prison in the Teleorman fictitious hiring file, has been brought to the National Anti-corruption Directorate (DNA) this morning, to be…