influence peddling

Liviu Dragnea, the former PSD chairman, who is currently serving a 3-and-a-half prison sentence for abuse of office, is criminally prosecuted by the anti-corrupton prosecutors in a new file, where he is charged with influence peddling and…

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…

Deputies have given the green light to the anti-corruption body's request to lift the parliamentary immunity of MP Nicolae Banicioiu, former PSD minister of Health. Prosecutors want Banicioiu to be investigated in a file where he is charged…

The National Anti-corruption Directorate (DNA) has asked for the waiver of immunity of deputy Nicolae Bănicioiu, former Health minister in the Ponta Government, in order to be investigated in a file where he is charged with influence…

Bucharest Tribunal has sentenced former speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, Valeriu Zgonea to three years in prison in a influence peddling file. The ruling is not final and can be challenged to the Court of Appeal. Judges have also decided…

Anti-corruption prosecutors are conducting searches at the Social Democrat Party headquarter in Arad, western Romania, at the houses of three PSD lawmakers and at the office of the Regional Department of Roads and Bridges Timisoara in a…

Former mayor of Piatra Neamt, Gheorghe Stefan, aka Pinalti, has been sentenced on Monday to three years and nine months in prison in a file targeting the Romanian Post. The ruling pronounced by the Bucharest Tribunal on Monday is not final…

The names of former PSD chairman Liviu Dragnea and of ex-premier Sorin Grindeanu are mentioned in an investigation in the U.S. targeting the vice-chair of President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee, Elliot Broidy, a famous Republican…

The High Court of Cassation and Justice (ICCJ – Supreme Court) 5-judge panel has ruled on Thursday to acquit the incumbent Government Secretary general, Toni Grebla. The ruling is final and was made by majority of votes. The separate…

Anti-corruption prosecutors have announced on Monday they had prosecuted again former Tourism minister Elena Udrea and journalist and businessman Dan Andronic in the Hidroelectrica file after they had re-investigated the case, which had…