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Radio Free Europe: Romania’s transport minister offered bribes to state employees before becoming a whistleblower

July 31, 2025

Romania’s current transport minister, the Social Democrat Ciprian Șerban, offered bribes to representatives of a forest district in Iași County as a young businessman in 2012, according to recently surfaced documents and recordings.

Șerban gave bribes at least six times before reporting the offense to the National Anticorruption Directorate. He did so only after being threatened that he would be reported himself for failing to fulfill a contract won through an intermediary, writes...

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