Teleorman

Fifteen defendants including several Romanians have pleaded guilty before a US judge of involvement in a multi-million dollar scheme to defraud US citizens through online auctions of non-existing goods, a US Justice Department statement issued on Monday by the US embassy in Bucharest said.

Another three people infected with the novel coronavirus have died in Romania, taking the number of COVID-19 fatalities to 1,262, the Strategic Communication Group (GCS) announced on Sunday. The latest victims are two men and a woman, ages between 64 and 71, from the counties of Buzau, Teleorman, and Dolj; they all had underlying medical conditions.

The former leader of the Social Democratic Party in Romania, PSD, Liviu Dragnea, has lost his lawsuit filed in 2018 against the European Commission after the Court of Justice of the European Union, CJEU, issued a ruling on Wednesday.

The Romanian Supreme Court on Monday sentenced Social Democratic Party leader Liviu Dragnea  - also president of the Chamber of Deputies - to three-and-a-half years in jail for illegal employment in Teleorman District, back when he chaired the county council in 2013.