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Former Interior Minister Cristian David was acquitted by the High Court of Cassation and Justice (ICCJ – Supreme Court) on Tuesday. The ruling is final. In December 2017 he had been sentenced to 5 years in prison by the first court. At…

The Constitutional Court of Romania has rejected on Thursday the PNL referral on the invalidation of the MP mandate for Liviu Dragnea, former Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, CCR officials say. The sources added that the referral has…

29 years are marked on Thursday since the bloodiest miners’ riot in Romania that claimed tens of people’s lives, of whom only six were identified. 746 persons were injured. It all started on May 20, 1990 when the then President Ion…

The 5-judge panel with the High Court of Cassation and Justice (ICCJ – Supreme Court) has postponed, on Tuesday, a sentence in the file on the former Finance Minister Darius Valcov to September 17. In first court, Valcov was sentenced to 8…

The National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) has decided to give up the appeal in regard to the arrest warrant issued on businessman Elan Schwartzenberg, sources say. Schwartzenberg is prosecuted since December 2017 by the DNA…

The judges’ section of the Superior Council of Magistracy (CSM) has cancelled the disciplinary action against Cristina Tarcea, the chief of the High Court of Cassation and Justice (ICCJ – Supreme Court), because the complainant who filed…

Former presidential adviser George Scutaru and former vice-president of the Chamber of Speaker, Dan Motreanu,former members of the National Liberal Party, have been acquitted in the file where they had been charged with bribery to finance…

Former Constanta mayor Radu Mazare has proposed to his girlfriend and will get married while in jail, next month, on his birthday, his brother Mihai Mazare announced. “He’d like to do it early next month, on his birthday, this does not…

Romania's most powerful politician has been sentenced to prison after a conviction was upheld by the country's Supreme Court, euronews.com informs. Social Democrat Party leader Liviu Dragnea had appealed after being found guilty of…

The first political reactions after the sentence for Liviu Dragnea to 3 years and 6 months in jail have surfaced. USR leader Dan Barna says the darkest period of the past 30 years has come to an end. "The decision made today by the…