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Senate Chairman Calin Popescu-Tariceanu said on Tuesday that it is in the hands of the Upper House plenary to decide whether he should be prosecuted or not, while the prosecutors can only look into the legality, not the timeliness of the Government's decisions.

The Senate President, Calin Popescu-Tariceanu, indirectly received, 2007 to 2008, when he was prime minister, material benefits worth US about 800,000 dollars from an Austrian company, the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) shows in a reply sent to AGERPRES.

The Prosecutors' Section of the Superior Council of Magistracy (CSM) on Tuesday greenlighted to the proposal of the Minister of Justice, Tudorel Toader, to appoint Giorgiana Hosu as deputy chief prosecutor of the Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT).

Prosecutor with the Prosecutor's Office attached to the Constanta Courthouse and currently delegated to the Prosecutor's Office attached to the Constanta Court of Appeals Adina Florea will be proposed by Justice Minister Tudorel Toader for the prosecutor-in-chief office of the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA), the Justice Ministry (MJ) informs.

The Liberals are requesting the Minister of Justice to send to the Superior Council of Magistrates (CSM) the candidacies that fulfill the legal conditions for the position of chief prosecutor of the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) and to allow CSM to make the decision concerning the nomination in this case, said on Thursday, National Liberal Party (PNL) Chairman Ludovic Orban.

Prosecutor General Augustin Lazar on Monday issued the order through which Anca Jurma has been delegated as chief prosecutor of the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA).

Basescu (former Romanian president, ed.n.)'s system that built the system of the parallel state left, but corrupt prosecutors and the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) head have remained, Social Democratic Party (PSD) leader Liviu Dragnea affirmed at the protest in Victoria Square.

Anti-corruption prosecutors are voicing their concern that the prosecutors' independence status might be affected.

The reaction of the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) comes in the context of the decision of the Constitutional Court of Romania (CCR) concerning the obligation of Romania's President to issue an order removing from office the head of DNA.

Justice Minister Tudorel Toader mentioned on Thursday that there is no decision of the Constitutional Court of Romania (CCR) which doesn't produce legal effects and isn't observed, a statement made in the context in which the CCR established that there is a conflict between powers regarding the denial to remove from office the chief prosecutor of the National Anticorruption Dire

The Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI) on Friday released on its website the protocol of cooperation with the Prosecution Office attached to the High Court of Cassation and Justice (PICCJ) regarding the two institutions' fulfilling their tasks regarding national security.