Former MP before Romania’s ICCJ
A former MP has appeared before Romania’s High Court of Cassation and Justice (ICCJ) in the capial Bucharest on Tuesday. It is the second time when Şerban Mihăilescu appears before ICCJ in a case where Senate Speaker Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu is accused of making false statements in a property fraud case. Last year, prosecutors charged Mr. Tăriceanu with making false statements under oath and hampering the investigation into a suspected fraudulent land restitution case. He denied any wrongdoing. Hearings into the case resumed after former judge Ana Maria Dascălu retired while being replaced by another judge. Şerban Mihăilescu brought nothing new to the statement he made in June when he said he met Mr. Tăriceanu at a party in Israel but they did not talk to each other. As the former MP formerly said the event took place in 2007 and then changed the date in 2009, a prosecutor with the country’s anti-corruption watchdog, the DNA, ruled that Mr. Mihăilescu should go on trial for lying under oath. A new date of Mr. Tăriceanu’s trial was set on November 28 when his former wife, Ioana Valmar, was also expected to appear in court.
Three former Romanian military bases turn into detention centres
Three former Romanian military bases are expected to become detention centres. The announcement on Tuesday came from Romania’s Justice Minister Tudorel Toader who added that a decision on the issue could be made at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday. Mr. Toader said the bases were located in an area near Unguriu, a vilage in the eastern Romanian county of Buzău. Minister Toader is currently attending a meeting of prosecutors with the country’s Superior Council of Magistracy where the activity of senior officials with the country’s National Anti-Corruption Directorate (DNA) comes under scrutiny.
A Romanian official on a visit to Baltic States
A Romanian official is on a visit to the Baltic States of Lithuania and Latvia. Victor Negrescu, Romania’s Minister Delegate for European Affairs is expected to meet Albinas Zananavičius, Deputy Foreign Minister of Lithuania, in the capital Vilnius. Mr. Negrescu is also expected to meet Latvian State Undersecretary Andris Pelšs in the capital Riga. A former MEP, Victor Negrescu became vicepresident of the governing Social Democratic Party (PSD) in 2015. He is also co-founder of the Democratic Left Foundation, a left-leaning group of Romanian intellectuals.
Romanian border police rescue over 70 people in Aegean Sea
Some 70 people from Sudan, Syria and Somalia including around 20 women and children were rescued by Romania’s border police while on a Frontex mission known as Poseidon 2017 in the Aegean Sea, according to a statement on Tuesday. The incident on October 28 came at a time when the Romanian border police attended a joint rescue operation with other Frontex forces. The immigrants arrived safely on the island of Chios, the fifth largest of the Greek Islands. More than 1,300 migrants were saved by the Romanian boarder police in co-operation with other crews deployed by EU Member States in Greece.
Alexandru Danga
