Senate Speaker suspected of bribe taking, cancels trip to ALDE Congress
Tăriceanu, is charged with receiving almost USD 800,000 from representatives of an Austrian company.
Articol de Radiojurnal, 09 Noiembrie 2018, 00:18
Romanian Senate Speaker Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu has canceled trip to Madrid, Spain, to the 39th ALDE Party Congress scheduled for 8–10 November, following announcement of the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) that he is suspected of bribe taking. DNA accusation refers to the period when Tăriceanu was a member of the Government, says AGERPRES.
National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) has officially announced on Thursday that Senate Speaker, Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu, is charged with receiving almost USD 800,000 from representatives of an Austrian company, in order to approve several additional clauses to a state contract, with the sum representing 10% of the clauses’ value. The money was used to finance the 2018 parliamentary electoral campaign.
It is speculated that the contract in question was a software licensing agreement with Microsoft, mediated by local representatives of former German-Japanese joint venture Fujitsu-Siemens Computers.
Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu said he has not yet received any official communication on this file and denied accusation. He also rejected information about allegedly illegitimate cases in the Microsoft file.
Source:RRA.Translated by Miruna Matei
