Powerful Romanian investor Gabriel Popoviciu, who was sentenced to seven years in prison earlier this month in a fraud and corruption case, was detained in London on Monday, August 14. The businessman was included on the internationally wanted list after the Bucharest Court of Appeal issued a European arrest warrant on his name. Officers of the […]

An investigative journalist in Kosovo* says he was assaulted in the capital, Pristina, in an attack he believes is related to his efforts to expose high-level corruption. Parim Olluri, the editor of the online newspaper Insajderi (Insider), told RFE/RL that he was beaten by three people in an attack near his home on August 16. […]

The former head of the Straseni Police Inspectorate was detained by NAC (National Anticorruption Committee) officers and anti-corruption prosecutors for passive corruption. He would have claimed 3,500 euros, and later another 10,000 euros, from a woman whose husband was investigated for hooliganism, assuring her that he could help him escape prosecution. According to the NAC, […]

After the High Inspectorate of Declaration and Audit of Assets (HIDAA), even the Classified Information Security Directorate (CISD) has started its work for scanning information on the heads of the justice system who will be the first to go through the filter of vetting. A list with over 100 names has been sent to the […]

The current deputy director of the Center for Forensic Medicine (CML), Andrei Padure, investigated on charges of acting ultra vires, has been placed under preventive arrest for 25 days. The decision was taken on Friday, August 11, by the magistrates of the Buiucani District Court of Chisinau. The decision to apply the measure of arrest […]

MEP Nikolai Barekov, a former TV presenter, has been strongly criticised for accusing a media freedom organisation of corruption and reporting journalists to the public prosecutor for alleged bribe-taking. Bulgarian MEP Nikolai Barekov has come under fire for lashing out at several journalists, reporting them to the prosecutor’s office for alleged tax evasion and accusing […]

Eight customs inspectors from the Leuseni Customs Point and a staff member of the Border Police Department will be tried for passive corruption for receiving money from bus drivers, who transported passengers across the country to leave unnoticed the violations found in their activities. Prosecutors have completed criminal investigations and referred the case to court. […]

The Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) presented its bill for a specialized anti-corruption agency, which will be able to act on its own initiative and check politicians’ declarations and alerts, said here on Monday Deputy Chair of BSP’s Parliamentary Group Kroum Zarkov. When the alert is signed, the person who had submitted it will be eligible […]

Svetozar Marovic, the former president of Serbia and Montenegro, could lose millions of euros’ worth of property if he does not pay a 1.1-million-euro fine after admitting involvement in corruption. Former Serbia and Montenegro president Svetozar Marovic has until mid-September to pay 1.1 million euros to Montenegro after making a plea bargain with the special […]

The former director of the Center for Forensic Medicine (CFM), Ion Cuvsinov, has been placed under preventive arrest for a period of 30 days. The decision was taken on Friday, August 11, by magistrates of the Chişinău Court, Buiucani headquarters. The decision to apply the arrest warrant was taken at the request of the anticorruption […]