The High Court of Cassation and Justice (ICCJ) admitted a request of the General Prosecution to reopen the criminal investigation against former president Ion Iliescu about the death of four people during the miners' raid of June 13-15, 1990. That is a part of the miners' raid case in which Ion Iliescu was indicted in June 2007, by former prosecutor Dan Voinea, for participating in a serious homicide, next to Mihai Chitac, former interior minister, and his deputy, general Gheorghe Andrita, in the night of June 13-15, 1990. Later on, in December 2007, the then general prosecutor Laura Codruta Kovesi, denied beginning a criminal investigation against the former president and, in October 2008, prosecutors of the Penal Investigation and Forensics Section of the General Prosecution decided not to begin the criminal investigation against Ion Iliescu. Mention should be made that the main body of the miners' raid file was sent to court by military prosecutors in June 2017, Ion Iliescu being accused, next to Petre Roman, Miron Cozma, Gelu Voican Voiculescu and Virgil Magureanu for crimes against humanity. In December 2020, magistrates of the High Court of Cassation and Justice decided to return the file to the Military Prosecution, to start from scratch the criminal investigation after all evidence gathered by prosecutors were canceled. Military prosecutors said, that on June 11 and 12, 1990, state authorities decided to begin a violent attack against demonstrators who were in University Square, Bucharest, to militate mainly for the adoption of point 8 of Timisoara Proclamation and peacefully expressed their political opinions, in contradiction with those of the majority of people who made up political power at that moment. Forces of the Interior Ministry, National Defense Ministry, SRI and over 10,000 miners and other workers from several areas of the country participate in the attack. According to the Military Prosecution, the attack began in the morning of June 13, 1990 with the following consequences: the killing of 4 people, the physical attack of 1,388 people, the arrest of 1,250 people for political reasons. Former president Ion Iliescu was accused by military prosecutors of being the one who ordered the forced evacuation of demonstrators in University Square, by using workers from big enterprises in Bucharest.
The number of people in Romania at risk of poverty stood at 3.59 million people in 2024, 375,000 fewer than in 2023, representing a 9.4% decrease, according to data from the National Institute of Statistics, or INS. Despite the improvement, nearly one in five Romanians was affected by poverty last year. According to INS, 19% […]
The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Cluj-Napoca carried out multiple searches on Tuesday, July 1, at the Sibiu International Airport and the Sibiu County Council as part of an investigation into suspected fraud involving a EUR 54 million EU-funded infrastructure project. A total of 24 locations were searched across Bucharest, Brașov, and Sibiu county, […]
A Romanian taxi driver who scammed 90-year-old Nigerian Nobel Prize laureate Wole Soyinka was detained by police on Sunday, June 29, according to media reports. On Friday, June 27, the venerable Nigerian arrived at Bucharest's Otopeni Airport. He got into a taxi and asked to be taken to a hotel downtown. At the destination, the […]
Costin Șerban, a Romanian entrepreneur, is digitalizing the construction sector in the United Kingdom with an ERP (enterprise resource planning) solution developed over 12 years and an investment of GBP 1.6 million (EUR 1.86 million). Șerban’s cloud-based ERP platform is called Abilo, was developed by the Romanian IT company Obi Systems, and is dedicated to […]
Border checks between Bulgaria and Romania have officially been lifted on July 1, as part of the implementation of the Schengen Agreement. The lifting marks the end of the transitional period of heightened control at the internal border, which had remained in place for six months following their accession to the Schengen area by land […]
Remus Vulpescu became CEO of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) on Tuesday, July 1, taking over from Adrian Tănase as the stock exchange grapples with a market dominated by government bonds. Vulpescu, 53, is a graduate in political and legal sciences from the University of Bucharest and holder of an EMBA obtained in 2017. He […]
