People's Movement

Romania Ex-President Faces Money-Laundering Charge

Romania's ex-president Traian Basescu on Wednesday said the Public Prosecutor's Office attached to the High Court of Cassation and Justice, PICCJ, had accused him of money laundering.

"I have been officially informed by PICCJ that I am suspected of money laundering? related to the purchase of a land plot and a house in 2000 and 2002," he wrote on Facebook.