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The National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) confirmed having identified 101 paintings former Finance Minister Darius Valcov had acquired via go-betweens; the works of art will undergo expert assessment and will be further placed in the custody of a specialist institution that will be able to put them on display.

The chief of Romania's National Integrity Agency (ANI) Horia Georgescu has been taken into custody by prosecutors of the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) on Monday.

Georgescu was transferred to the detention facility of Bucharest prison after having been heard at the DNA office, AGERPRES news agency reports.

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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Bucharest's District 5 Mayor Marian Vanghelie spent the night in the arrest, waiting to be taken to court by National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) prosecutors for a 30-day preventive custody pending trial.

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United Kingdom becomes the pioneer with the House of Lords approving a bill passed by the Commons to allow ‘three parent’ babies.

UK is the first nation in the world to allow the “mitochondrial transfer” technique, known as “three-parent”.

Several hundred politician and politically connected figures, from the powerful and famous to little-known officials, were investigated, indicted, or imprisoned last year in Romania, official data show.

Prosecutors from the Anti-Corruption Department, DNA, launched some 317 indictments in 2014.

The values the Romanian anticorruption body (DNA) has seized in 2014 were over 303 million euros, which is over 13 times the annual budget of the National Anticorruption Directorate, said on Tuesday the DNA Chief Prosecutor, Laura Codruta Kovesi when presenting this body's annual activity Report.

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Searches by anticorruption prosecutors were in progress at several companies on Monday morning, including 2K Telecom, owned by the brother of deputy Sebastian Ghita, judiciary sources told AGERPES.

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The brother-in-law of Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta was detained by the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) on Tuesday on suspicions of corruption and defrauding EU funds.

Iulian Hertanu was detained along with two other businessmen after waiting for 17 hours at the DNA headquarters in Ploiesti, AGERPRES news agency reports.

National Anti-corruption Directorate (DNA) prosecutors on Wednesday are conducting searches at the Ministry of Transportation headquarters in a case regarding damages said to be worth over 5 million euros, sources from the judiciary told AGERPRES.

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