national anticorruption department

Romanian anticorruption prosecutors have placed a partial distraint on the estates of businessmen Marius Locic and Costel Casuneanu, currently investigated for graft in the same case as senator Catalin Voicu and Supreme Court judge Florin Costiniu, sources close to the case told MEDIAFAX Wednesday.

Romanian politician Nati Meir's son, Or Meir, was caught rapid with EUR20,000, with which he was supposed to convince certain magistrates to repeal an arrest warrant and issue lighter sentences in a criminal lawsuit, Romanian anticorruption prosecutors said Friday.