06.28.2018

Romania's Supreme Court on Thursday sentenced former energy minister Constantin Nita to four years in prison for influence peddling. The ruling is final. more

02.08.2018

Romania’s Supreme Court on Thursday sentenced state councilor and former finance minister Darius Valcov to eight years in prison on charges of influence peddling and money laundering. more

02.24.2016

Businessman Gruia Stoica has been sentenced to two and a half years suspended prison sentence for influence peddling, according to a definitive supreme court ruling. more

07.02.2015

Irina Socol, former CEO of Romanian software developer Siveco Romania, was sentenced Thursday to three and a half years in prison for tax evasion. more

06.08.2015

Businessman Ovidiu Tender was sentenced to 12 years and seven months in prison and Marian Iancu was sentenced to 14 years in prison in the Carom file, on charges of embezzlement and money laundering. more

03.05.2015

Businessman Gruia Stoica has been sentenced to four years in prison and attorney Doru Bostina received a three-year sentence for influence peddling. The rulings are not final and may be appealed. more

02.13.2015

Former social democrat minister Miron Mitrea was sentenced to two years in prison for bribe taking and Irina Jianu was sentenced to five months in prison for bribing an official. The ruling is final. more

01.27.2015

Romania's supreme court issued a definitive ruling Tuesday sentencing Codrut Seres, a former economy minister, to four years and eight months in prison, while former communications minister Zsolt Nagy more

10.07.2014

The Bucharest Court of Appeals on Tuesday passed a definitive ruling sentencing senator Sorin Rosca Stanescu and former communications minister Sorin Pantis to prison for their roles in a stock market more

08.08.2014

Romanian high-profile businessman and politician Dan Voiculescu received a definitive 10-year prison sentence Friday, for his role in the privatization of the Food Research Institute (ICA). more

01.30.2014

Romania’s former transport minister Relu Fenechiu has been sentenced definitively to five years in prison for accessory to abuse of office. more

01.27.2014

Romania's former minister of youth and sports Monica Iacob Ridzi was sentenced Monday to five years in prison for abuse of office and misappropriation of public money. more

01.06.2014

Romania’s former social-democrat prime minister Adrian Nastase was sentenced Monday to four years in prison for blackmail and bribe taking, while his wife Dana Nastase received a suspended more

12.12.2013

Romania’s former liberal democrat MP Dan Pasat on Thursday received a definitive sentence to three years in prison after his appeal was rejected and he was found guilty of blackmail and corruption. more

12.06.2013

The Bucharest Court sentenced Eugen Bradean, former trading manager with state-owned hydropower plant Hidroelectrica, to a three-year suspended jail term, in a corruption case. more

12.03.2013

Romania’s High Court of Justice on Tuesday sentenced former economy minister Codrut Seres to six years in prison and former communications minister Zsolt Nagy to five years in prison in a file more

07.12.2013

Romania’s Transport Minister Relu Fenechiu has been sentenced to five years in prison by the High Court of Justice Friday for accessory to abuse of office. more

06.04.2013

George Becali, owner of football team Steaua Bucharest, has been sentenced to three years in prison for attempting to bribe the players of a team whose win would have secured Steaua’s championship more

05.20.2013

Romanian MP Gigi Becali was sentenced Monday to three years in prison in a land swap case involving former high-ranking officials of the Defense Ministry. more

04.10.2013

Romania’s High Court of Justice on Wednesday sentenced former democrat liberal MP Dan Pasat to three years in prison for blackmail. more

03.27.2013

Romania’s former charge d’affairs in Singapore Silviu Ionescu was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison for a hit and run accident he caused in December 2009, killing one person and more

02.25.2013

A five-judge panel with the Romanian High Court of Justice on Monday sentenced two former agriculture ministers to three years in prison each for corruption. more

02.13.2013

Judge Maria David of the Romanian High Court of Justice has been sentenced to four years in prison after a five-judge panel of the High Court found her guilty of influence peddling. more

02.11.2013

Romanian MP Gigi Becali was sentenced Monday to a suspended three-year prison term for kidnapping the alleged thieves of his car. more

01.10.2013

Romanian former general Victor Athanasie Stanculescu, sentenced to 15-year jail time for aggravated manslaughter during the 1989 revolution, will remain in prison after a court rejected Thursday his more