The mayor of the eastern Romanian city of Bacau, Romeo Stavarache, has been detained for allegedly accepting bribes totaling more than half a million euro, the Balkan Insight website reports today (July 2, 2014).
Stavarache -- a member of the opposition National Liberal Party -- was remanded in custody for 30 days today for allegedly receiving bribes of over 2.3 million lei (some 520,000 euro) from businessmen.
According to the government's anti-corruption department, DNA, between 2008 and 2011, Stavarache allegedly received -- directly or via two other people who were also detained over the bribery claims -- various amounts of money from four businessmen, in exchange for assigning them public contracts.
In one incident, Stavarache allegedly asked a company to give him 50 percent of the value of the work paid for by Bacau city hall for installing street lights. He also demanded from another firm 10 percent of the value of a building contract for a 45-apartment block which was worth 2.7 million euro.
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