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Following the discovery of victims' remains and mounting public pressure, South Korean authorities have launched a comprehensive review of previously closed missing persons cases. The investigation has escalated into a national scandal, prompting high-level government scrutiny and procedural reforms.
A case involving a German businessman who was allegedly beaten and robbed in Timișoara was closed by Romanian prosecutors, but German police have since intervened, pursuing the stolen vehicles and recovering one.
Romanian prosecutors have frozen assets totaling EUR 6.4 million as part of an ongoing investigation into an illegal care home network.
Romanian prosecutors have announced an expansion of their ongoing investigation into controversial influencer Andrew Tate.
The High Court of Cassation and Justice in Romania has decided to maintain the preventive arrest of prosecutors Gigi Ștefan and Teodor Niță from the Constanța Court of Appeal, who are accused of corruption.
Two prosecutors, Gigi Ştefan and Teodor Niţă, from the Constanţa Court of Appeal Prosecutor's Office, have been preventively arrested on corruption charges and subsequently suspended from their positions by the Superior Council of Magistracy (CSM).
Thirteen raids were conducted at the Constanța Court of Appeal Prosecutor's Office as part of an investigation into two prosecutors suspected of influence peddling. The inquiry is coordinated by prosecutors from the High Court of Cassation and Justice.
Dinu Iancu-Sălăjanu, president of the Sălaj County Council, has been placed under judicial control by the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) amid accusations of rigging public contract tenders. Prosecutors allege he placed individuals in evaluation committees to ensure specific companies won bids.
Alexandru Balan, former deputy director of Moldova's Information and Security Service (SIS), has been indicted by Romanian prosecutors for allegedly divulging secret information to the Belarusian KGB.
Prosecutors and police conducted 19 searches in Bucharest and three other counties as part of an investigation into a real estate fraud scheme in Sector 5, with an estimated damage of 16 million lei.
Romanian prosecutors have raided the Bucharest Pension House as part of an investigation into a case involving fictitious employment seniority.
Five individuals are under criminal investigation in Romania for allegedly operating a network since 2023 that provides solutions to Baccalaureate exam subjects to candidates.
Romanian DNA prosecutors have conducted 48 searches across seven counties and Bucharest, dismantling a tax evasion network that allegedly used fictitious invoices and caused damages exceeding 50 million lei.
Romanian prosecutors have initiated a new investigation into Andrew Tate for incitement to hatred and discrimination.
Prosecutors Gigi Ștefan and Teodor Niță are accused of abusing their positions through interventions in criminal cases, opening files to secure contracts, and engaging with businessmen interested in meetings with county council presidents.
Romanian prosecutors and police conducted searches in Cluj and Maramureș as part of an operation to apprehend Romanians accused of robbing a truck in a highway parking lot in France.
Romanian military prosecutors have initiated criminal proceedings against 17 individuals in connection with the replacement of a Romanian helicopter that crashed in Moldova in 2016, resulting in total damage.
An extensive investigation by the Criminal Investigation Section of the General Prosecutor's Office has uncovered and dismantled a complex network that fraudulently facilitated the acquisition of Romanian citizenship for foreign citizens.
Romanian military prosecutors have seized assets belonging to Raed Arafat, the head of the Department for Emergency Situations (DSU), as part of an ongoing investigation into a helicopter case.
Romanian prosecutors have launched an investigation into an alleged network of care homes suspected of mass exploitation.
Prosecutors Gigi Valentin Ştefan and Teodor Niţă from the Constanţa Court of Appeal will remain in pre-trial detention. The High Court of Cassation and Justice definitively rejected their appeals against charges of influence peddling and instigation to abuse of office.
Romanian prosecutors have added charges of hate speech against women to the ongoing investigation into Andrew Tate. This development broadens the scope of the legal proceedings against him.
Two prosecutors from the Constanța Court of Appeal, Gigi Ștefan and Teodor Niță, have been detained for 24 hours in a corruption case involving abuse of office, with their lawyer announcing an appeal to the High Court of Cassation and Justice.
Romanian prosecutors from DIICOT have proposed the preventive arrest of a 45-year-old Turkish citizen, accusing him of smuggling over 200 kilograms of heroin from Iran into Constanța Port, declared as spices.
Over a hundred prosecutors specializing in economic crime investigations are publicly urging Parliament and the Government to amend the law that mandates expert evaluations for damages in economic crime cases, arguing it overemphasizes the expert's role.