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Romanian Corruption-Charged Mayor To Be Released From Arrest

The Galati Court of Appeals Wednesday ruled to release from arrest Antonie Solomon, the suspended Mayor of Romania’s southern city of Craiova, indicted on charges of corruption and intellectual forgery.
Romanian Corruption-Charged Mayor To Be Released From Arrest
Ioana Tudor
08 sept. 2010, 17:39, English

On September 1, the Galati Court rejected Solomon’s provisional release request, and the court’s ruling was challenged with the Galati Court Of Appeals.

The Court of Appeals’ Wednesday ruling is definitive and Solomon will be released from the Galati Maximum Security Penitentiary. Court representative Irina Popa said Solomon is forbidden to leave Craiova without the court’s agreement.

Solomon has been under arrest since March 3 and subsequently denied release on parole or bail. He is accused of having taken a EUR50,000 bribe from a major shareholder of the local PIC company. The former mayor is charged with repeated bribe taking and intellectual forgery.

Solomon was suspended from public office following his arrest and said late May he intended to resign from the position of mayor and leader of the Democratic Liberal Party branch in Craiova. The indicted mayor said repeatedly he wanted to be investigated at large as he posed no danger to the public.