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Bucharest Court Magistrates To Cease Activity Come Aug 31

15:34, 28 Aug. 2009
Bucharest Court vice president Laura Andrei said Friday the magistrates will cease all activities starting from Monday, except the preventive measures trials and those involving the placement of minors, while judges will refuse assignments to electoral offices.

Appeals Court: Romania Fin Min To Pay Some RON1.5M Salary Rights To High Court Staff

12:21, 24 Iul. 2009
The Bucharest Court of Appeals on Friday ruled that Romania’s Finance Ministry and the Court Of Accounts must pay salary rights of nearly 1.5 million lei (EUR1=RON4.2325) to Supreme Court magistrates and auxiliary staff.

Romanian Court Annuls Fin Ministry Address Regarding Magistrates’ Bonus

14:27, 09 Iul. 2009
The Bucharest Court of Appeals on Thursday annulled an address of the Ministry of Finance informing magistrates that a 50% mental distress bonus was not included in their salaries for June, upholding an appeal of judges with the Supreme Court.

Romanian Court Suspends Justice Ministry Order Scrapping a 50% Bonus

16:17, 07 Iul. 2009
The Bucharest Court of Appeals on Tuesday suspended the order of the Ministry of Justice that halted the granting of a 50% bonus for mental distress to magistrates and court staff, in a suite filed by judges and auxiliary staff of the Bucharest court and the Bucharest Prosecutors’ Office.

Government Emergency Ordinance On CSAT Vice-Presidency Is Unconstitutional

14:39, 07 Iul. 2009
The Romanian Constitutional Court (CC) decided Tuesday that Government Emergency Ordinance 224, enabling Senate speaker Mircea Geoana to become vice-president of the High Council for National Defense, is unconstitutional.

Bucharest Court Upholds Travel Ban On Becali

16:26, 23 Iun. 2009
A Bucharest court on Tuesday upheld a travel ban on Romanian MEP George Becali, who is facing police inquiry in a kidnapping case.

Romanian Constitutional Court Sees No Legal Conflict Btw Govt, CSM

14:05, 17 Iun. 2009
The Romanian Constitutional Court noted Wednesday that the aspects notified by the High Council of Magistrates (CSM) do not fit within the parameters of a legal conflict of constitutional nature.

Court: Becali Still Not Allowed To Leave Romania

16:36, 09 Iun. 2009
A Bucharest court on Tuesday ruled businessman and politician Gigi Becali is not allowed to leave Romania, pending a trial in which Becali faces charges of kidnapping.

Bucharest Ex-Mayor, Employees To Pay RON5M Damages To City Hall

18:27, 29 Mai 2009
The former general mayor of Bucharest, Adrean Videanu, is forced to pay, along with another 23 employees of Bucharest City Hall, some five million lei (EUR1 = RON4.1786), money spent inefficiently on works at the Lia Manoliu stadium and when setting up sidewalk curbs.

ECHR Rules Against Romania On Two Counts Of Police Brutality, Unlawful Inquiry

18:52, 26 Mai 2009
The European Court for Human Rights (ECHR) ruled in favor of the plaintiffs in a case where two Romanian citizens were detained by police and arrested illegally.

Romanian Court Auxiliary Staff Begin Warning Strike

10:40, 11 Mai 2009
Clerks, archivists and other members of auxiliary staff in Romanian courts began a warning strike Monday at 10 a.m., stopping all activity for two hours, unhappy because the collective work contract negotiated in December with the Justice Ministry has not been applied.

Romanian Liberals To Challenge Senate Head’s CSAT Vice Presidency

14:25, 05 Mai 2009
The Romanian National Liberal Party will challenge, at the Constitutional Court, Government Emergency Ordinance 224 allowing Senate president Mircea Geoana to become vice president of the High Council for National Defense, said liberal MP George Scutaru.

Romanian Football Referee Marcel Savaniu Denied Parole

12:18, 05 Mai 2009
The Arges Court denied Wednesday the request for parole for Romanian football referee Marcel Savaniu, in custody for 29 days on charges of corruption.

Five Suspects To Be Tried At Large In Romania High Profile Kidnapping Case

15:54, 30 Apr. 2009
The Bucharest court on Thursday ruled to try at large the five bodyguards of Steaua Bucharest owner Gigi Becali, who were arrested in the case regarding the kidnapping of three men who allegedly stole Becali’s car in January this year.

Runaway Terrorist Omar Hayssam In Syrian Prison, Letter Claims

16:06, 29 Apr. 2009
The Bucharest Court of Appeals sent, on Wednesday, a series of notices to the Justice Ministry and the Interpol to find out if businessman Omar Hayssam is imprisoned in Syria, as a letter submitted by Hayssam’s lawyer claims.

Romanian Businessman S.O. Vantu Heard Again In Bankrupt Bank Case

12:43, 24 Apr. 2009
The Bucharest Court of Appeals on Friday subpoenaed businessman Sorin Ovidiu Vantu for hearings in the file concerning the setup of former International Development Bank, or BID.

Steaua Owner Remanded Into Custody

19:10, 14 Apr. 2009
A Bucharest court on Tuesday ruled to remand Steaua football club owner Gigi Becali into custody awaiting trial on kidnapping charges.

Romanian Arges Football Club Owner Arrested On Bribery Charges

11:30, 14 Apr. 2009
The Arges Court, southern Romania, ruled Tuesday to place Arges football club owner Cornel Penescu under arrest for 29 days, alongside Gheorghe Constantin, head of the Central Commission of Referees, and other two officials in Arges, on bribery charges involving several football matches.

Romanian Court Decides To Keep Steaua Football Club Owner In Custody

09:19, 07 Apr. 2009
The Bucharest court decided to keep Steaua football club owner Gigi Becali in custody, along four other people, after it previously ruled to place them under arrest on kidnapping charges.

Ford Romania Sued Over Local Tax Payment

21:10, 06 Apr. 2009
Carcea village mayoralty in Dolj county, southern Romania, sued Ford Romania late March this year after it previously requested the company register with the farming registry of Carcea village to pay its taxes to the local budget, which are estimated at nearly EUR2 million.

Court To Rule On Steaua’s Owner Release

19:40, 06 Apr. 2009
A Bucharest courthouse Monday started deliberations on whether to release Steaua football club owner Gigi Becali, who was arrested along four other people on charges of kidnapping.

Lawyers Reject Judges Trying Appeal Of Romanian Football Mogul Gigi Becali

13:58, 06 Apr. 2009
The court session of the appeal against the arrest of Romanian football mogul Gigi Becali and four others, accused of kidnapping, was suspended Monday, half an hour into the trial, as lawyers rejected the judges trying the case.

Romanian Football Mogul Gigi Becali Arrested For Deprivation Of Freedom

09:27, 03 Apr. 2009
Romanian football club Steaua owner Gigi Becali was placed under 29-day preventive arrest Friday morning in the case regarding the alleged kidnapping of three people who stole Becali’s car in January this year.

Romanian Loteria I Tax Evasion Case Files Sent To Constitutional Court

12:19, 11 Mart. 2009
The Romanian Supreme Court allowed the request for the suspension of the case Loteria I, where businessman George Copos is on trial for tax evasion, and sent the case to the Constitutional Court, as lawyers raised an exception on jurisdiction should the defendant change status.

Romanian Ordinance on Biometric Passports Goes Ahead

11:08, 18 Feb. 2009
The Government Ordinance regarding the introduction of biometric passports in Romania is still applicable, despite protests by various NGOs, which the Bucharest Court of Appeals rejected Wednesday.

Romanian Court Keeps Death Penalty For Spy Who Fled To The U.S. In ’73

14:01, 30 Ian. 2009
Constantin Rauta, a former officer of Romania’s Foreign Intelligence Department under the Ceausescu regime, sentenced to death by the Bucharest Military Court in 1974, didn’t have his sentence overturned Friday at the High Court of Justice.

Bucharest Court Dismisses NGO Appeal On Tripple Car Tax

17:48, 20 Ian. 2009
The Bucharest Court of Appeals on Tuesday summarily dismissed an appeal filed by non-government organization “The Commissariat for Civil Society” to annul an ordinance tripling the tax on used cars, as the mentioned act was already annulled.

Romanian Govt To Issue Draft Law Banning Pension-Wage Cumulus

16:17, 15 Ian. 2009
The Romanian Government will push a draft law banning the cumulation of pension with salary in the public sector, a normative act to be debated with urgency in Parliament, Prime Minister Emil Boc announced.

Romanian Pension-Wage Decree Declared Unconstitutional

14:41, 15 Ian. 2009
The Romanian Constitutional Court decided Thursday, with a majority of votes, that the provisions of Government Emergency Ordinance 230/2008, banning cumulated pensions and wages in the public sector, are unconstitutional, thus allowing the exception raised by the ombudsman.

Court Releases Romanian Communist-Era General Chitac To Allow Surgical Procedures

14:11, 29 Dec. 2008
The Bucharest Military Court on Monday decided to discontinue for a three-month period the 15-year prison sentence of former high-ranking general Mihai Chitac to allow surgical procedures.

Court Allows New Medical Examination For Romanian Ex General Stanculescu

11:59, 29 Dec. 2008
The Bucharest Military Court decided Monday that former high-ranking general Victor Athanasie Stanculescu would undergo a new medical examination at the “Mina Minovici” National Forensic Medicine Institute, after Stanculescu’s lawyers requested a new medical checkup.

Romanian Prosecutors Indict High Officials In Graft Case

15:47, 23 Dec. 2008
Romanian anticorruption prosecutors on Tuesday indicted Paul Pacuraru, former labor minister during April 3, 2007 – September 23, 2008, and Ilie Morega, member of the General Assembly of Shareholders in thermal power producers Rovinari and Turceni, and the Oltenia National Coal Company (SNLO), on charges of corruption.

Bucharest Court Of Appeal Cancels One UDMR Deputy Mandate

19:22, 19 Dec. 2008
The Bucharest Court of Appeal cancelled, Friday, the deputy mandate obtained by Magyar minority party candidate Koto Jozsef in the electoral college of Romanians abroad, following the case opened by Magyar minority party candidate Benedek Imre Sandor against the Central Electoral Office.

Romanian Liberal Lawmaker Virgil Pop Sent To Court In Corruption Case

12:10, 11 Dec. 2008
The Cluj branch of Romania’s Anticorruption Department (DNA) sent liberal lawmaker Virgil Pop to court on charges of influence peddling, forgery, instigation to forgery and money laundering, the representative of the local anticorruption department said Thursday.

Romanian Court Issues First Decision In Securitate Collaboration Case

20:35, 05 Dec. 2008
The Bucharest Court wrote the first explanation for a sentence in a case involving collaboration with the communist political police, the Securitate. The case involved Dan Trancota, leader of the National Initiative Party.

Romanian Protan Urges Court To Suspend Decision Halting Its Ops

13:32, 25 Nov. 2008
The Bucharest court tried Tuesday the appeal filed by Romanian non-hazardous waste collector SC Protan SA against the decision of the Bucharest Regional Agency for Environmental Protection to suspend the company’s license for 30 days.

Romanian Businessman Acquitted Of Using False Documents

17:18, 18 Nov. 2008
A Bucharest court on Tuesday acquitted Romanian businessman Sorin Ovidiu Vantu of using false documents to set up a bank.

Romania’s Protan Can Continue Activity At Popesti Leordeni – Court Ruling

15:38, 14 Nov. 2008
The Popesti Leordeni unit of Romanina non-hazardous waste collector Protan can continue activity, as the Bucharest Court suspended the decision reached by the Bucharest Regional Agency for Environmental Protection ceasing the activity at the unit.

Court Rejects Romanian Art Museum Appeal To Suspend Ceausescu’s Estate Return

12:40, 14 Nov. 2008
The Bucharest Court of Appeals on Friday found no grounds to suspend proceedings for the return of Nicu Ceausescu’s estate to his brother, Valentin and rejected the National Art Museum’s request in the matter.

Romanian Govt Reminds New Decree On Teachers’ Wages Is Effective

17:16, 12 Nov. 2008
The Romanian government said Wednesday it will wait for the Constitutional Court’s motivation on its ruling regarding the decree postponing a 50% pay increase for teachers, which the government had annulled in the meantime, government spokeswoman Camelia Spataru said.