April 10, 2019 UPDATE

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Newsroom, 10.04.2019, 20:11

COCAINE Six packages of 170 kilos of cocaine have been found floating on
the Black Sea close to the Bulgarian town of Shabla, not far from the Romanian
border. The packages were wrapped in a life jacket and water-proof materials.
The Romanian and Bulgarian authorities have been working on this case for a
week now since a large quantity of cocaine was discovered on the Romanian Black
Sea coast. An ample operation was mounted by prosecutors with the Romanian
Department for Organized Crime and Terrorism. The packages have been carried by
waters to the sea from the Danube after a motorboat with 800 kilogram of
cocaine on board capsized. According to the Romanian police the drug has a
higher concentration of over 90%, which can jeopardize the life of possible consumers.

CLEAN SPORT Romania’s National Anti-Doping Agency (ANAD) on Wednesday awarded
the honorary title ‘Clean Sport Ambassador’ to eight former top athletes from
Romania, Doina Melinte, Vali Ionescu Caciureac, Miodrag Belodedici, Helmuth
Duckadam, Narcisa Lecusanu, Alexandru Dedu, Laura Badea and Mihai Covaliu. ANAD
intends to promote the values of Olympic sporting disciplines, clean sport and
fair-play and to call into attention this scourge, which is directly impacting sport
and indirectly society at large. The Play True Day was declared on April 10th
through the Declaration of Montevideo signed by 17 countries in 2013 jointly
with the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).

JUSTICE Romania’s Justice Minister Tudorel Toader on Wednesday rejected
all the four nominations for the position of the country’s prosecutor general
and the procedure is to resume. The four nominees are: Marian Drilea,
prosecutor with the Department for the Investigation of Organized Crime and
Terrorism DIICOT, Daniel Horodniceanu, former head of the aforementioned
institution, incumbent prosecutor general Augustin Lazar, whose mandate is due
to expire at the end of this month, and Gabriela Scutea, prosecutor with the
Court of Appeal in Brasov, central Romania. Under the law, the Justice
Minister’s nomination is to be sent to the Higher Council of Magistracy, for a
consultative notification, then is submitted to the country’s president for
approval.

(translated by bill)