Serban Mihailescu

Ecaterina Andronescu indicted in Microsoft case

The National Anti-corruption Department (DNA) indicted on Thursday former Minister of Education Ecaterina Andronescu in the Microsoft licensing case.

"I didn't give a statement. I had a discussion with Ms. Prosecutor. I am suspected of abusing office," Andronescu said upon leaving the DNA seat.

She denied having been indicted for other crimes.

Candidate Ponta: you have three sentenced colleagues; candidate Ionannis: you have 38

Incumbent prime minister Victor Ponta, the presidential candidate of the Social Democrat Party (PSD), National Union for Romania's Progress and Conservative Party told his opponent Klaus Iohannis of the Christian Liberal Alliance there where three of his Rightist colleagues 'definitively and irrevocably' sentenced; Iohannis replied the Leftist have 38 such people.

Deputies Chamber approves request for MP Vreme criminal prosecution

The lower Deputies' Chamber at a plenary sitting on Monday passed a 153 to 110 vote to approve the request made by the National Anti-Corruption Directorate (DNA) to start the criminal prosecution of independent deputy Valerian Vreme, Chamber Secretary Ion Marcel Ciolacu announced.

The vote was secret, with Vreme being the only deputy to address the debates.