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Romania Ex-President Faces Money-Laundering Charge
Romania's ex-president Traian Basescu on Wednesday said the Public Prosecutor's Office attached to the High Court of Cassation and Justice, PICCJ, had accused him of money laundering.
"I have been officially informed by PICCJ that I am suspected of money laundering? related to the purchase of a land plot and a house in 2000 and 2002," he wrote on Facebook.
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Former Bacau Mayor Romeo Stavarache arraigned and detained
The former mayor of Bacau (county seat, northeast of Bucharest) Romeo Stavarache has been arraigned and placed under arrest pending trial on Friday for five charges of bribery, a release of the National Anticorruption Directorate informed AGERPRES.