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Romanian Prosecutor Gen Asks Lawmakers’ Approval To Go After Ex PM

Romania’s prosecutor general Laura Codruta Kovesi on Thursday requested approval from the Chamber of Deputies to prosecute former premier and current legislator Adrian Nastase.
Romanian Prosecutor Gen Asks Lawmakers’ Approval To Go After Ex PM
22 ian. 2009, 13:36, English

On Tuesday, anticorruption prosecutors indicted Nastase on charges of influence-peddling while leading the country’s leftist Social Democratic Party, or PSD.
Nastase, alongside five other people indicted in the “Construction Quality Trophy”, will be tried before the High Court of Justice.
 
Prosecutors accused Nastase of using his authority as head of the social democrats to obtain illegal assets and money.
 
In 2004, the Romanian State Inspectorate in Constructions (ISC), run by defendant Irina Jianu, initiated a symposium called “Construction Quality Trophy”. The symposium was in fact a screen to gather funds for Nastase’s presidential campaign, prosecutors said.
 
According to prosecutors, Nastase and the other five defendants in the case allegedly caused total damages to the Constructions Inspectorate worth 6.961.155,2132 lei (EUR1=RON4.3127).
 
The Constructions Inspectorate is civilian party in the case.
 
Last year, the Romanian Parliament rejected a request from prosecutors to investigate corruption allegations against Nastase.
 
The prosecutors sought to determine how Nastase acquired property in central Bucharest during his mandate as prime minister (between 2000 and 2004).