National Integrity Agency

The High Court of Cassation and Justice (ICCJ) on Wednesday decided to put former UDMR (Hungarian Democrat Union of Romania) deputy Marko Attila under 30-day preventive custody in absence, as he is being accused in the ANRP (National Authority for Property Restitution) criminal file, a ICCJ minute reads.The Supreme Court admitted the DNA anti-corruption prosecutor's proposal for preventive arre

Romanian anticorruption expert Laura Stefan, on Thursday was awarded a 2015 Woman of Courage Award by the US Embassy in Bucharest.

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The High Court of Cassation and Justice (ICCJ) on Tuesday is to check on the legality of preventive measures in the ANRP (National Authority for Property Restitution) case with the former chief of the National Integrity Agency (ANI) Horia Georgescu and MPs Catalin Theodor Nicolescu and Marko Attila-Gabor involved.

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The National Integrity Agency (ANI) is checking the personal fortune of the Governor of the National Bank of Romania (BNR) Mugur Isarescu, BNR Spokesman Dan Suciu reports.

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Prosecutors of the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) have taken into custody on Monday Horia Georgescu, the head of the National Integrity Agency (ANI).

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Georgescu has been transferred to the detention facility of the Bucharest Police.

National Integrity Agency (ANI) Head Horia Georgescu has been brought on Monday, with warrant, to the National Anti-corruption Directorate (DNA) to be heard by prosecutors, judicial sources have told AGERPRES.

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Romania's high court of cassation and justice on Wednesday acquitted President Klaus Iohhanis of any charges of possible conflict of interests.

At issue was Iohannis's actions as mayor of the Transylvanian town of Sibiu from 2000 to 2014, when he represented the city administration at a shareholders' meetings of two firms of which the city itself is a co-owner.

Bulgaria's Deputy Prime Minister Meglena Kuneva announced that the country should follow Romania's example if it wants to tackle corruption successfully.

Kuneva said this after meeting Romania's Chief Prosecutor of the National Anticorruption Directorate Laura Kovesi and the President of the National Integrity Agency Horia Georgescu, private bTV station reports.

ACL presidential candidate Klaus Iohannis said on Wednesday evening during an on-air debate with his opponent Victor Ponta, that a politician once caught plagiarizing now seeks the position of President of Romania.

The Christian Liberal Alliance (ACL) took note of the decision issued by the High Court of Cassation and Justice to reject the request from the National Integrity Agency (ANI) regarding an earlier court term for the case of Klaus Iohannis, and noticed that despite the pressure exerted through public statements both by Prime Minister Victor Ponta, President Traian Basescu and the S