influence peddling

The Romanian Senate’s committee for legal matters on Tuesday approved eight to three votes anticorruption prosecutors’ request to allow for the arrest of social democrat senator Catalin Voicu, accused of influence peddling and fraud.

Romanian anticorruption prosecutors called on the justice minister to require Parliament approval to arrest social democrat senator Catalin Voicu, who is accused of influence peddling and fraud.

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.

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.

Romania’s former agriculture minister Decebal Traian Remes and his lawyer on Wednesday spent nearly two hours at the National Anticorruption Department (DNA).