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Liviu Dragnea - Deputy Chairman of the S&D Party Romania (PSD) - got a 2-year suspended sentence for use of the influence deriving from the management of PSD in order to obtain undue benefits. He is indicted in a case for incitement to abuse of office. Victor Ponta- Member of the Parliament (MP), former Prime Minister - indicted for false documents under private signature (17 offenses), complicity in repeated tax evasion and money laundering, prosecuted in another file. Dan Sova - MP, former Minister - Sent to trial in two criminal cases for abuse of office, forgery of private documents, repeated tax evasion and money laundering, influence peddling. Sebastian Ghita - MP - prosecuted by the DNA for eight offenses: bribery, buying influence, money laundering, and extortion, two counts of use of information not intended for the public and driving a car without a license. Olguta Vasilescu - Mayor Craiova - prosecuted for bribery (four offenses), use of authority or influence in order to obtain money, goods or other undue advantages (three offenses) and money laundering. Ecaterina Andronescu - MP, former Minister - Microsoft file prosecuted with charges of abuse of office, bribery, trading in influence and money laundering. Dan Nica - MEP, former Minister - Microsoft folder, DNA prosecuted for abuse of office, bribery, peddling influence and money laundering. Mircea Cosma - former President of Prahova County Council - indicted for bribery and abuse of office. Vlad Cosma - MP, son of the former President of Prahova County Council Mircea Cosma - indicted for peddling influence and prosecuted in another file Gheorghe Bunea Stancu - former President of the Braila County Council, sentenced to three years in prison for using his influence and authority (resulted from his position) in the file "Bribe the PSD"; he was indicted for repeated abuse of office Adrian Duicu - President of the Mehedinti County Council - indicted for influence peddling, buying influence, three offenses of using influence and authority, two offenses of bribery etc. Miron Mitrea, former minister of transports - was sentenced on October 15 2014 to two years in prison HCCJ, the file relating to her mother's house renovation in Voluntari neighborhood. But the decision is not final. Sorin Apostu, the former mayor of Cluj-Napoca, was sentenced on July 7 2014 , the High Court of Cassation and Justice to four years and six months imprisonment for bribery, money laundering, documents forgery with private signature. Former members of PSD - were expelled or resigned when they were indicted/convicted Adrian Nastase - former prime minister, former president of S&D Party, formerly member of the S&D Party, was sentenced to 4 years of imprisonment for blackmail and bribery, and respectively sentenced to 2 years of imprisonment in the case "trophy quality" in which he is charged in (linked with the fundraising campaign in 2004 when he ran for the presidency in the S&D) Nicuşor Constantinescu, former president of Constanta County Council - was sentenced to 5 years in prison, sentenced in first instance to 15 years in prison, indicted by DNA in several corruption cases for the offenses of abuse of office against public interests with extremely serious consequences. Radu Mazare - former mayor of Constanta - was taken into custody several months and indicted for bribery. Hrebenciuc, former Member of the Parliament - was put under provisional detention for illegal retrocession for the restitution of 43 000 hectares of forest. .

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