Dan Diaconescu

The detention this week of the owner of Romania's main media company, Adevarul Holding, Cristian Burci, is only the latest case of a media tycoon being investigated for corruption in Romania - a move affecting not only their reputation but also their businesses.

Romania's Justice Minister, Raluca Pruna, on Thursday said the country will scrap the article that cuts convicts' jail sentences by 30 days for every "scientific work" that they publish.

The move is aimed at putting an end to the sudden and unexpected literary boom in the country's prisons.

A group of 15 Romanian senators has initiated a bill aimed at amending the controversial law that allows prisoners who publish books to have their jail terms cut.

"Many politicians, businessmen and ex-football players only discovered their literary skills after they were jailed for corruption and have benefited from loopholes in the law ... this must end," MP Valeriu Todirascu said.

The new National Liberal Party (made up of the former PNL - the National Liberal Party and the former PDL - Democratic Liberal Party) would collect the most votes, if parliamentary elections were to be held in Romania next Sunday, says a poll conducted by the CSCI and sent to AGERPRES.

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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.

Media mogul Dan Diaconescu on Wednesday was sentenced to five and a half years in prison for blackmailing, under a final and binding sentence issued by the Bucharest Court of Appeal.

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The new National Liberal Party (PNL, in opposition) would get the vote of 44.2 percent of Romanians should parliamentary elections be held next Sunday (up from 41.7 percent in Dec.

President Klaus Iohannis and the representatives of parliamentary parties have signed on Tuesday the national political agreement on increasing the financing of defence.

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Consultations between President Klaus Iohannis and representatives of the minorities' group deputies, part of the series of consultations between the head of state and the political formations in Parliament on the topic of the Defense budget, have begun on Monday at the Cotroceni Palace.

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The deputies and senators of Romania's Parliament have approved on Saturday, in joint sitting, the filling of eight vacancies in the Administration Council of the Romanian Radio Broadcasting Corporation (SRR).

381 MPs voted in favor of the candidate proposals while 22 MPs voted against, out of a total of 403 valid votes expressed.