Corruption in Romania

Prosecutors of the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) are executing several search warrants in the case regarding the gala in which Lucian Bute boxed in Bucharest, in July 2011, said, for AGERPRES, judiciary sources.

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Adriean Videanu, former Economy Minister, was remanded in custody by National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) prosecutors on Thursday.

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Deputy Elena Udrea was placed under criminal investigation by the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) on Thursday for committing the crime of money laundering (in the form of gaining/using goods with knowledge they result from criminal activity) and submitting false assets statements, in the Microsoft case.

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Deputies Iulian Iancu and Lucian Sova of the ruling Social Democrat Party (PSD) are under criminal investigation in the case against Constitutional Court Judge Toni Grebla, anticorruption prosecutors announced on Thursday.

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Bulgaria's Deputy Prime Minister Meglena Kuneva announced that the country should follow Romania's example if it wants to tackle corruption successfully.

Kuneva said this after meeting Romania's Chief Prosecutor of the National Anticorruption Directorate Laura Kovesi and the President of the National Integrity Agency Horia Georgescu, private bTV station reports.

Alina Bica was detained on Friday for having allegedly approved a dubious payment made by the government in 2011 to compensate a businessman whose property had been seized under the Communist regime.

Bica, 40, is currently the Chief Prosecutor with the Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism, DIICOT.

Prosecutors of the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) have taken into custody the chief prosecutor of the Directorate for the Investigation of Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) Alina Bica on Thursday night.