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Targeted by corruption probe, PNL’s Orban ends race for Bucharest City Hall

April 11, 2016

*The Liberal was placed under judiciary control for obtaining undue benefits during election campaign   National Liberal Party (PNL) First Vice President Ludovic Orban was summoned at the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) on Monday, where he was notified that he is a defendant in a case concerning the obtaining of undue benefits during the elections […]

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