Communications minister suspended from office

Bucharest – President Traian Basescu yesterday signed the decree suspending Zsolt Nagy from his office as Minister of Communications and IT, the Presidential Administration informs. The Presidency reports that Zsolt Nagy is under criminal investigation by the Prosecutor’s Office of the High Court of Cassation and Justice, in connection with an alleged criminal offence consisting of assisting an organised criminal group of a tarns-national nature. The minister of Communications was placed under criminal investigation during the interim presidency of Nicolae Vacaroiu who nonetheless decided not to suspend him.