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Anticorruption prosecutors search 13 locations in Bucharest City and Constanta, Cluj counties; public institution targeted

National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) prosecutors are executing search warrants at 13 locations in the City of Bucharest and in the counties of Constanta and Cluj, one of which is the headquarters of a public institution, the rest being company headquarters and homes of individuals.

Photo credit: (c) Simion MECHNO / AGERPRES ARCHIVE

Elena Udrea, charged with money laundering and submitting false assets statements (official)

Deputy Elena Udrea was placed under criminal investigation by the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) on Thursday for committing the crime of money laundering (in the form of gaining/using goods with knowledge they result from criminal activity) and submitting false assets statements, in the Microsoft case.

Photo credit: (c) Silviu MATEI / AGERPRES PHOTO

MPs under criminal investigation in case against Constitutional Court Judge

Deputies Iulian Iancu and Lucian Sova of the ruling Social Democrat Party (PSD) are under criminal investigation in the case against Constitutional Court Judge Toni Grebla, anticorruption prosecutors announced on Thursday.

Photo credit: (c) GRIGORE POPESCU / AGERPRES FLOW

Ecaterina Andronescu indicted in Microsoft case

The National Anti-corruption Department (DNA) indicted on Thursday former Minister of Education Ecaterina Andronescu in the Microsoft licensing case.

"I didn't give a statement. I had a discussion with Ms. Prosecutor. I am suspected of abusing office," Andronescu said upon leaving the DNA seat.

She denied having been indicted for other crimes.

Kovesi: Election year or legal capacity, no indicators for DNA taking up cases

Chief prosecutor of the National Anti-Corruption Directorate (DNA) Laura Codruta Kovesi told Adevarul Live's Monday webcast that corruption prosecutors do not take up cases to prosecute based on whether or not it is an election year or on a person having a certain legal capacity, but only based on operative moments.

Two found guilty of attacking Nobelist at Patra University in 2011

Two men who disrupted a lecture by Nobelist James Watson at the University of Patra in April 2011 were convicted on Wednesday.

One was handed a 13-month jail sentence, suspended for three years, after being found guilty of using an illegal weapon and causing bodily harm. The other received a three-month term, also suspended for three years, for illegal use of violence.

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