Legal Committee of the Chamber of Deputies
Romania Moves to Lift Ban on Courts Using Secret Service Wiretappings
Political analysts have criticised moves in Romania to make wiretappings carried out by the secret services usable once again as evidence in corruption cases.
The moves comes as Romania is to receive billions of euros from the EU funds, which are seen as likely to boost the temptation of corruption and embezzlement.
Deputy PM Barna: Modification saying magistrates will be sent to trial with CSM approval - a smaller compromise
Deputy Prime Minister Dan Barna, co-chair of the USR PLUS (Save Romania Union - Freedom, Unity, Solidarity Party) Alliance on Monday said that the modification brought by the Legal Committee of the Chamber of Deputies to the draft on the abolition of the Special Section for the Investigation of Judicial Crimes (SIIJ), which provides for the prosecution of magistrates to be done only with the ap
Parliament Legal Committee to recommend rejection of prosecutors' request to investigate PM Ponta
The Legal Committee of the Chamber of Deputies will recommend the plenum to reject the request of the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) to open a criminal investigation on Prime Minister Victor Ponta.
Chamber Speaker Zgonea: Decision on PM Ponta in a fortnight, censure motion hopeless
The Legal Committee of the Chamber of Deputies has 14 days to come up with a report on the General Prosecutor's request to open an investigation against Prime Minister Victor Ponta, the Chamber Speaker Valeriu Zgonea declared on Saturday.