preventive arrest

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 anticorruption prosecutors detained Cornel Serban, head of the General Intelligence and Internal Protection Department (DGIPI), and Petre Pitcovici, head of the Operations Division within the General Anticorruption Department, for alleged complicity to crimes.

A Iasi court on Saturday approved prosecutors’ request to issue 29-day preventive arrest warrants for Ghita Berbece, head of the customs office in Albita, eastern Romania, and other three accomplices, on cigarette smuggling charges.