Bucharest mayor under bribery probe
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Romanian anti-corruption prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation against the capital Bucharest鈥檚 mayor on suspicion of taking bribes, they said yesterday, the latest in a string of high-profile cases in the European Union state.
Prosecutors said that Sorin Oprescu was part of a group of civil servants working in Bucharest public administration who granted public works contracts to companies in exchange for receiving some of the earnings back as bribes.
鈥淐ompanies kept between 30 and 33 percent of the gross profit, and the rest was given as bribes to employees of the Bucharest mayor, with 10 percent of the contracts鈥 value requested by the accused Sorin Oprescu,鈥 prosecutors said in a statement.
His lawyer was quoted as denying any wrongdoing on behalf of his client.
Oprescu, a 63-year-old doctor who is serving a second term as mayor, was caught receiving a 25,000 euro (US$28,000) bribe, a first installment out of a total of 60,000 euros he had allegedly demanded from unnamed people who became informants for prosecutors, the statement said.
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