The president and ministers fall for bribery and corruption

28.04.2011. – A Romanian court has convicted a former agriculture minister of corruption. Greece is seeking an investigation against the former defense minister over submarines, and Costa Rica has condemned the former president.

A Romanian court has sentenced former Agriculture Minister Ioan Muresan to seven years in prison for corruption, based on a December 2003 indictment. He is charged with embezzling about 29.5 billion lei, or about 1.6m euros, along with another agriculture ministry official.

Former minister, member of the center – right government, which was in power between 1996. and 2000. He is the first post-communist minister to be convicted by the Romanian judiciary.

Bribes and submarines in Greece

The Greek parliament will form a commission to investigate a corruption scandal involving the purchase of German submarines for the Greek navy.

The ruling PASOK party is seeking an investigation into whether former Defense Minister Akis Cohadzopoulos was involved in corruption in the purchase of four German submarines.

Cohadzopoulos, of course, denied that he was involved in the corruption scandal, and German judicial authorities accused him of being involved in the sale and of being from the German company Ferostal in 2000. took a bribe.

President of Costa Rica and Telecom

Former Costa Rican President Miguel Angel Rodriguez has been sentenced to five years in prison for accepting bribes from telecom operator Alcatel.

Seventy-one-year-old Rodriguez, who has ruled the country since 1998. until 2002. year, he is accused of receiving from $ 500,000 to $ 14 million, which the French company Alcatel gave to Costa Rican officials.

Neighboring Croatia, before joining the EU, is carrying out major purges, so after the arrest of former Prime Minister Ivo Sanader, several government officials and businessmen (were) under various investigations.

Bosnia and Herzegovina, a country where everyone knows that bribes are accepted and given and that there are no clean people among the great ones, will wait a long time for such news.

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