Romania: Former Organized Crime Prosecutor and Former Tax Chief Arrested for 'Bribery'

21:07, September 3, 2015

Romanian authorities have detained the country’s former chief prosecutor for organized crime and the former head of the tax authority, both of whom are suspected of taking bribes from a businessman to sway a property restitution case in his favor. 

It is alleged that the kickback was paid on behalf of Horia Simu, owner of Cuprom, Romania’s only copper production firm. According to allegations, Simu had paid Pop about € 230,000 (US$258,997) to exert influence on the courts to drop an investigation into his alleged involvement in fraudulent property restitution.

Property restitution in Romania involves returning the property, or money equal to the value of the property, that was nationalized by the state in the 1940s to the families of its former owners.  Read more... (194 words)

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