Romanian Intelligence Service

Romania on Alert Following Brussels Attacks

Four Romanian citizens, including a child, were wounded in the terror attacks on the airport and metro in Brussels, the Romanian Foreign Ministry confirmed on Wednesday.

The child is hospitalized and under the care of a relative, while of the other three casualties, one has been released and two remain under medical supervision.

George Maior gets select committees' OK for Romania's Ambassador in Washington

Former head of the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI) George Maior on Tuesday got the okay of the Houses' Joint Foreign Policy Committees for the position of Ambassador of Romania to the United States.

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Maior's bid earned 18 favorable votes, one vote against and one abstention.

Poll: 52 pct of Romanians say anticorruption, intelligence agencies should have free hand in investigations

More than half of the Romanians (52 pct) believe that the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) and the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI) should have "free hand in investigations, even if some rights and liberties are questioned," according to an opinion barometer by Avangarde released on Friday.

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Iohannis: What Ponta claims is surprising and false; there haven't been interventions on Forestry Code

President Klaus Iohannis on Thursday said that he took note of Prime Minister Victor Ponta's statements on a possible influence at the Presidential Administration level on the Forestry Code and labelled these statements as surprising and false.

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Country's Supreme Defence Council to check magistrates if undercover officers

The Superior Council of Magistracy (CSM) has decided on Wednesday to notify the Country's Supreme Defence Council (CSAT) with a view to check upon all magistrates in order to find out whether they are or not undercover officers with some intelligence service, a release by the CSM told AGERPRES.

Photo credit: (c) Cristian NISTOR / AGERPRES ARCHIVE

President Iohannis approves nomination of former intelligence director Maior as ambassador to US

President Klaus Iohannis has approved on Thursday the nomination of former Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI) director George Maior as ambassador to the United States, the Presidential Administration announced.

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The President also recalled Ambassador Iulian Buga from Romania's embassy in Washington.

Tax evaders searched; over 3-million-euro fraud

Prosecutors and police officers are conducting today 75 domiciliary visits in Bucharest City and the counties of Ilfov, Timis, Calarasi, Buzau, Teleorman, Bacau, Prahova and Ialomita and enforcing 58 summons in a 3-million-euro fraud from tax evasion and money laundering.

Photo credit: (c) Radu TUTA / AGERPRES ARCHIVE

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