12.11.2017

The failure to pay to the government the taxes deducted at source becomes a crime punishable by one to six years in prison, according to an emergency ordinance draft published on the Finance Ministry more

08.04.2015

About 400 prisoners at the Timisoara Penitentiary or more than 40% of the total there are working in production facilities in or outside the prison grounds or even at the plants in the area. 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

03.31.2014

Romania’s former economy minister Codrut Seres was sentenced to four years in prison Monday by the High Court of Justice for accessory to abuse of office in a case involving the defrauding of more

03.04.2014

Eight Romanian football high officials were sentenced definitively to prison Tuesday, on charges of fraud in transfers of football players. 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

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

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

03.18.2013

The Bucharest Court decided Monday former prime minister Adrian Nastase will be released from prison ahead of term. more

02.12.2013

A Romanian court admitted Tuesday former prime minister Adrian Nastase’s request to be released from prison ahead of term. 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

01.09.2013

Romania’s former prime minister Adrian Nastase, sentenced to two years in prison for corruption, could be released ahead of term after receiving a positive endorsement from the parole commission at more

10.02.2012

The Bucharest Court on Tuesday sentenced Romanian businessman Sorin Ovidiu Vintu to two years in prison in a case regarding the collapse of the National Investment Fund (FNI). more

04.26.2012

Romanian businessman Ilie Carabulea was sentenced Thursday to one and a half years in prison for bribing a prosecutor. The prosecutor, Florin Apostu, was sentenced to five years in prison. more

02.14.2012

Romania’s High Court of Justice on Tuesday sentenced former agriculture ministers Decebal Traian Remes and Ioan Avram Muresan to three years in prison for corruption. more

01.30.2012

Romania’s High Court of Justice on Monday sentenced former social democrat prime minister Adrian Nastase to two years in prison on charges of corruption in raising funds for his 2004 presidential more

01.10.2012

Omar Hayssam, convicted of terrorism in Romania, was released on January 9, 2012 from a Syrian prison, where he served a four-year sentence. more

12.09.2011

Romanian authorities have no information showing Romania hosted CIA secret detention centers on its territory, Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesperson Doris Mircea told a news conference Friday. more

12.08.2011

Officials with the Romanian Office for Classified Information (ORNISS) said Thursday the building has been used exclusively as a headquarters for the institution since late 2002 and has never hosted a more

10.11.2011

Gaming fans who use online gambling sites that are not authorized in Romania may be sentenced to six months to two years in prison, Tuesday said Cristian Costea, partner of law firm more