Romania’s former prime minister underwent surgery today following an apparent suicide attempt, hours after being told he will be jailed for corruption.

Former Agriculture Minister Ioan Avram Muresan was sentenced to seven years in prison for embezzlement and budget misappropriation by a Court in Bucharest. Muresan was also forbidden to exercise a series of rights for five years after the sentence is executed.

The police say criminals stole money from the accounts of foreigners by using methods like "skimming" or "phishing".

The prosecutors’ investigation report on the basis of which the Parliament approved yesterday the waiver of Mihail Boldea contains shocking data: he made false legal documents to helped various persons of the underworld to launder money.

Romanian High Court of Justice magistrates gave former prime minister Adrian Nastase on Monday a 2-year sentence and stripped him of certain rights in a corruption case known locally as the "Quality Trophy" file.

Directorate for Prosecutors Investigating Organised Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) detained an Italian and three Romanians for defrauding various banks from the EU zone, causing a prejudice of 5 million euros.

Politehnica Timisoara (Romanian football team) owner, Marian Iancu, was sentenced to ten years imprisonment in "Rafo" case by the Bucharest Tribunal.

General Prosecutor's Office decided on Monday the arrest of businessman Sorin Ovidiu Vantu and former union leader Liviu Luca, under the charges of money laundering, in the case of Petromservice.

National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) prosecutors made the first three proposals for preventive arrest in the "Fraud with European funds" File. Among them are two directors of the University School of Medicine and Pharmacy Iasi (UMF)

ADS Bucharest journalists discovered a network of organ sellers - buyers - medical professionals. In hospitals, there are lots of illegal businesses of tens of thousands of euros