Eighty Romanian officials charged

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Series Details 11.8.04
Publication Date 11/08/2004
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The mayor of the Romanian capital, Bucharest, Traian Basescu, who was a former Transport Minister, and 79 other former ministers and senior officials have been charged with corruption. The charges are connected with the sale of 16 ships by the state-owned Petromin company to a Norwegian enterprise in the 1990s, prosecutors said.

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