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Ioan Tarnu and Liviu Schiau, Romanian Interior Ministry officers in Alba county, charged with aiding a criminal group specialized in stealing machinery from EU states, have been released as the Alba Iulia Court of Appeals rejected prosecutors’ move to have them arrested.

Thirty border police and customs officers at border crossing points in western Romania have been detained following ample raids and five others will be investigated at large, the National Anticorruption Department said Wednesday.

Two Romanian traffic police officers, Marius Milea and Nicolae Rotaru, were detained Friday evening by anticorruption officers, as they solicited bribe from an undercover police officer.

Two police officers from Bucharest Police Precinct 13 were detained Thursday night, when, driving a police cruiser, they were caught after a car chase in which they tried to ram the vehicles of anticorruption officers blocking their path.

Romania’s National Police Officer Union "Pro Lex" members will take to the streets again on November 22, displeased with the faulty management applied by the Ministry of Interior and the fact that law and order laws and the police officer statute were not passed.

The Romanian Ministry of Interior and Administrative Reform sees as unjustified the protest march and rally planned by police officers for Saturday, given that talks with the protesters have already generated solutions for their claims.