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Update - COVID vaccine purchases: Romania’s former health minister Vlad Voiculescu charged with abuse of office

December 8, 2023

Update: DNA prosecutors also charged former health minister Ioana Mihăilă with abuse of office in the same case. Similar to Vlad Voiculescu, she allegedly initiated a memorandum that former prime minister Florin Cîțu approved on May 13, 2021, which would have resulted in the trading and procurement of an additional 34 million Pfizer vaccine doses, although the vaccines contracted...

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