The Romanian Corvette Program Saga (Part Two)
Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 18 Issue: 27
Romania s Damen Galati shipyard (Source: Yellow and Finch Publishers)
Post-Communist Romania’s first national warship-building program a multi-role corvette resides in legal limbo since being launched in November 2016, with none of the four planned vessels having been laid yet. After an initial attempt by the authorities to directly award the program to the domestic shipyard Damen Galați (owned by the Dutch firm Damen Group), a change in government derailed the whole deal. More than a year passed before Romania restarted the corvette program, this time opening it up to a competitive process (see Part One in EDM, February 10).
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Judge Corneliu-Bogdan Ion-Tudoran, who ruled in Romania’s high profile Băneasa real estate development case, has been charged with wrongly convicting a defendant and for abuse of office for his conduct in the case. The Băneasa development involved businessman Gabriel Popoviciu and concerned 221 hectares which was owned by the University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine (USAMV), through a joint venture.
It emerged that last month, Judge Tudoran has been charged with wrongfully convicting a defendant and abuse of office for his misconduct in the Popoviciu - Băneasa case. It was already known that Judge Tudoran provided the statement of reasons for the decision on the civil side of the Popoviciu - Băneasa case almost a whole year after the ruling. At that point he was retired and, when no longer still held the position of judge. Moreover, at the time of writing his judicial opinion, he was actually hospitalised in a psychiatric ce
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A National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) prosecutor requested, on Tuesday, at the Bucharest Court of Appeals, the conviction of Elena Udrea to 12 years in prison for committing the crimes of instigating bribery and money laundering in the file of the financing of the electoral campaign for the 2009 presidential elections.
The prosecutor also demanded 15 years in prison for Ioana Basescu, Traian Basescu s daughter, accused of instigating embezzlement and instigating money laundering.
On Tuesday, at the last trial term, the DNA representative requested that Elena Udrea and Ioana Basescu be sentenced to maximum sentences for the deeds committed, claiming that the crimes they are accused of are serious.
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Former Senate Chairman Calin Popescu Tariceanu has been indicted by prosecutors with the National Anti-Corruption Directorate (DNA) in a case in which he is accused of taking bribes worth 800,000 US dollars.
Procedurally, the anti-corruption prosecutors have reached the stage where the former prime minister is to be sent to trial.
According to a DNA press statement released on Monday, prosecutors with its department dealing with corruption and related crimes ordered the initiation of the criminal action against Tariceanu, at the time of the commission Romanian Government, for bribery.
Investigators note in their ordinance that, in the pending case there are data and evidence from which it results that Tariceanu allegedly claimed and received, in 2007-2008, from the representatives of an Austrian company, material gains worth 800,000 US dollars in guise of payment for consultancy services in exchange for the exercise of its duties in such a
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Senate s former Speaker Calin Popescu-Tariceanu claims that the case in which he is indicted by the prosecutors of the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) is an eminently political one. It is interesting that the DNA decided to make public the content of each procedural act it carries out in the case of alleged bribe! It would have been good if it did the same with the investigation into Mr. Iohannis six houses or with the bribes taken by the leaders of the ruling parties! But here the law does not apply in the same way for all! Given that the criminal investigation is not public (this goes also for the DNA, but it does not apply to them!), I can only assure you that this case is an eminently political one. There is no evidence of any bribe, just a story of some obedient prosecutors! Tariceanu wrote on Facebook on Monday.