Romanian court

A Romanian court on Wednesday sentenced former jail commander Ioan Ficior to 20 years in prison for the deaths of 103 political prisoners during the Communist regime.

He has 10 days to appeal.

This was the second trial of a head of a Communist-era lockup in Romania since dictator Nicolae Ceausescu was tried and executed in 1989.

Romania has been told to pay compensation to eight people of 2,400 euro each for the length of criminal proceedings in a case related to their ill-treatment in December 1989.

The European Court for Human Rights announced the ruling on Tuesday.

A Romanian court on Wednesday announced a criminal prosecution against former president Ion Iliescu for alleged crimes against humanity over the violent suppression of protests in 1990.

Iliescu was allegedly involved in the violent suppression of an opposition movement that organised protests in Bucharest for several weeks in mid-1990.

The Bucharest County court on Tuesday rejected the request for insolvency filed by the Romanian oil company Rompetrol SA, which is part of the Netherlands-based oil and gas group KMG International.

The reasoning of the judges had not been made public so far, but Rompetrol has seven days to appeal.

A Romanian court on Wednesday jailed Mihai Necolaiciuc, a former manager of the Romanian Railways Company, CFR, for ten years for abuse of office and embezzlement. Two other former railway officials were jailed for eight years in the same case.

The decision is not final and can be appealed.

AGERPRES special correspondent Catalin Alexandru reports: Romania's Foreign Minister Bogdan Aurescu on Thursday said he called on Hungary's Foreign Ministry to forward to the relevant authorities of Hungary Romania's call on Hungary to observe the European legislation in the case of fugitive former MP Marko Attila.

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A Romanian court has ruled that the alleged followers of the Islamic State group, ISIS, represented a danger to the security of the country and ordered their expulsion.

They were prohibited from returning to the country for between three to seven years, Romania's internal intelligence agency, SRI, said in a statement on Saturday.

A Romanian court has decided to extradite two Turkish police officers in Bucharest, who are wanted by Turkey for allegedly bugging the then-Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo?an's office in 2014, their lawyers said March 20.

A Romanian court jailed Dan Diaconescu for five-and-a-half years on Wednesday for blackmail. He was found guilty of seeking bribes from a mayor in northern Romania and from a businessman in exchange for not broadcasting compromising material about them.

Romanian authorities have ordered the closure of Lukoil's Petrotel refinery in Ploiesti, Romania.

Oleg Malginov, Russia's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Romania, announced that the oil refinery had been closed sue to an investigation for tax evasion and money laundering.