Romania Sacks Road Auth Staff Accused Of Taking Bribe From AC/DC Staff

Romanian Transport Minister Radu Berceanu told a news conference Thursday that the ten employees of local road department DRDP in Timisoara, western Romania, who exacted EUR50 for each of the 29 cars carrying rock band AC/DC’s equipment for a concert in Bucharest, were sacked.

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The minister said that all the ten employees, who were on duty at the Nadlac border point on the night of the incident with AC/DC's technical staff, were dismissed, adding that they are not the only ones to be sanctioned.

Berceanu highlighted that, if the problem is not entirely tackled, the manager of the road department in Timisoara, Ioana Malita, might also be dismissed.

Romania's public roads company CNADNR general manager Dorina Tiron told newspaper Gandul early June that, according to a complaint filed by AC/DC's technical staff, road department employees, who were on duty at the Nadlac border point, exacted EUR50 for each of AC/DC's 28-29 cars, on grounds they did not pay a tax to use the country's national roads during their stay in Romania, which was illegal. Moreover, no receipt was issued for the money.

Fraud investigation police in Arad, western Romania, opened an investigation into the case of the ten Romanian road department employees accused of bribe taking, and the file was sent to prosecutors.

Australian hard rock band AC/DC held a concert in Bucharest on May 16 and the show was attended by 60,000 people.

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