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Romanian Ex-PM Indicted On Influence Peddling

Romanian anticorruption prosecutors on Tuesday indicted former prime minister Adrian Nastase on charges of influence-peddling while leading the country’s leftist Social Democratic Party, or PSD.
Romanian Ex-PM Indicted On Influence Peddling
20 ian. 2009, 15:32, English

Nastase, alongside five other people indicted in the “Construction Quality Trophy”, will be tried before the High Court of Cassation and Justice.
 
Prosecutors accused Nastase of using his authority as head of the social democrats to obtain illegal assets and money.
 
In 2004, the Romanian State Inspectorate in Constructions (ISC), run by defendant Irina Jianu, initiated a symposium called “Construction Quality Trophy”. The symposium was in fact a screen to gather funds for Nastase’s presidential campaign, prosecutors said.
 
According to prosecutors, Nastase and the other five defendants in the case allegedly caused total damages to the Constructions Inspectorate worth 6.961.155,2132 lei (EUR1=RON4.3025).
 
The Constructions Inspectorate is civilian party in the case.
 
Last year, the Romanian Parliament rejected a request from prosecutors to investigate corruption allegations against Nastase.
 
The prosecutors sought to determine how Nastase acquired property in central Bucharest during his mandate as prime minister (between 2000 and 2004).