President Klaus Iohannis has stated on Thursday that the Justice minister’s request for the Prosecutor General’dismissal is completely inappropriate and likely to generate concern and distrust in the system. At the same time, the head of state has made a ...
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President Iohannis’ announcement through which he has publicly asked for PM Dancila’s resignation has prompted a lot of reactions on the side of the ruling coalition. Senate Speaker Calin Popescu Tariceanu has stated on Friday that the only one in ...
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President Klaus Iohannis has Okayed criminal prosecution request against former Finance minister Sebastian Vladescu, after the National Anti-corruption Directorate had asked for his investigation for two crimes of bribe taking. Vladescu has been Finance minister during August 2005-April 2007 and ...
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President Klaus Iohannis announced in a press conference on Monday evening that he would not follow up the Justice minister’s request to dismiss the chief prosecutor of the National Anti-corruption Directorate (DNA), Laura Codruta Kovesi. The Romanian president said the ...
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The Chamber of Deputies has passed the referendum law on Wednesday by 195 votes to 71 and 6 abstentions and will send it for promulgation to President Iohannis, for the second time. Iohannis had sent the law back in Parliament ...
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Romania’s Prosecutor General Augustin Lazar (photo) has sent president Klaus Iohannis the request for criminal prosecution against former president Ion Iliescu, former PM Petre Romania and former minister Gelu Voican Voiculescu in the Revolution file related to charges of crime ...
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The lawmakers who have been found in conflict of interest during 2007-2013 are getting away with the sanctions. The legal committee of the Chamber of Deputies has rejected the re-examination request asked by President Iohannis on the bill amending the ...
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The Constitutional Court of Romania (CCR) on Thursday postponed the decision in the Belina case for November 23. Senate Speaker Calin Popescu Tariceanu had requested the constitutional judges to determine if there is a legal constitutional conflict between the Government ...
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Deputies have vetoed on Tuesday the anti-corruption prosecutors’ request to prosecute Rovana Plumb in the Belina file, by 183 votes to 99. Plumb stated after the vote that the MPs had cast a vote which defends the separation of powers. ...
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Tycoon Dan Voiculescu can be released from prison, magistrates from the District 5 Court in Bucharest have ruled on Thursday evening. Voiculescu was sentenced to ten years in prison for money laundering. The ruling is yet not final and can ...
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