Probe Committee Report On Youth Minister Case Completed Tuesday – Youth Min

Romanian youth and sports minister Monica Iacob Ridzi presented a document on television station Realitatea TV, saying it is the final draft of the Parliament investigation committee’s report, adding criminal investigations are requested against her over alleged embezzlement and abuse of office.

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"I have here the final report of the Committee (...). On page 13 of the document, the committee proposes the initiation of criminal investigations against me," Ridzi said.

Ridzi said the report, which she obtained from her party colleagues who were in the commission, was allegedly ready on Tuesday, even before her hearing on Wednesday.

On the other hand, liberal Alina Gorghiu, president of the investigation committee, called the show and contradicted Ridzi, saying the document presented by Ridzi is just a draft, a provisional, not final, variant.

The Ridzi Committee was to issue the investigation report Thursday. The report will be subject to debate in the Chamber of Deputies.

Ridzi is under investigation by anticorruption prosecutors and a parliamentary commission for having allegedly illegally spent public money to organize celebrations marking Youth Day on May 2.

The president’s office said in a press release recently that the president will use his constitutional prerogative to suspend a minister if competent institutions request that minister’s prosecution.

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