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The Bucharest Court decided on Monday to sentence the former mayor of Bucharest, Sorin Oprescu, to four years and four months in prison for corruption offences, in a first decision.

Judges from the Bucharest Court decided on Thursday to close criminal proceedings against businessmen Dinu Pescariu and Claudiu Florica, who were investigated for money laundering in a notorious case regarding state purchases of Microsoft licenses.

Two Israeli doctors who were applied preventive arrest in the investigation of fertility clinic Sabyc after attempting to leave Romania on Tuesday had been working without license, sanitary authorization and without the approval of the Doctors College.

The Bucharest Court of Appeals on Wednesday sentenced the former general manager of Bucharest heating company RADET, Gheorghe Dabela, to six years in prison and two years of suspended rights for bribery, after the Bucharest Military Court previously sentenced Dabela to three years in prison.

The Bucharest Court of Appeals maintained the decision of a lower court which obligated the Romanian Intelligence Services to pay businessman Dinu Patriciu moral damages for illegal tapping.

The Romanian Court of Accounts notified the Bucharest Court regarding violations noticed in Bucharest City Hall regarding a contract for the purchase of land in the Mihailesti commune, unjustified payments for works on roads, losses in the social security budget and delays in budget payments.

The new and the old buildings housing the Bucharest Court were evacuated Friday at noon after a bomb threat from a man calling off a pre-paid mobile card, said commissioner Christian Ciocan, spokesman for the Bucharest Police.