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Romanian PM's Relative Detained on Suspicions of Defrauding EU Funds
The brother-in-law of Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta was detained by the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) on Tuesday on suspicions of corruption and defrauding EU funds.
Iulian Hertanu was detained along with two other businessmen after waiting for 17 hours at the DNA headquarters in Ploiesti, AGERPRES news agency reports.
PM's brother-in-law, part of bid rigging ring, acted to fraudulently win Comarnic sewerage contract
The Prime Minister's brother-in-law Iulian Hertanu is supposedly being investigated on suspicions of having colluded with others to set up a bid rigging ring that acted to illegally win the contract for the expansion of the Comarnic city sewerage network, judicial sources told AGERPRES on Tuesday.
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Prosecutors ask Parliament to approve preventive detention and custody of liberal deputy Mircea Rosca
The National Anti-corruption Directorate (DNA) prosecutors ask the Chamber of Deputies' approval for a house search, preventive detention and custody of deputy Mircea Rosca for influence peddling.