Former Romanian football league president, sent to court for bribery

Anticorruption prosecutors sent to court under judicial control Dumitru Dragomir, the former president of Romania’s Professional Football League, and Ioan Bendei, the former manager of the telecom and cable operator RCS&RDS, for bribery and complicity to money laundering. Dragomir is accused of taking a bribe of EUR 3.1 million from Ioan Bendei in exchange for ceding the broadcasting rights of football matches in the First League, between 2008 and 2011. The bribe was subsequently masked in the form of payments made under a joint venture agreement concluded between a firm controlled by Dumitru Dragomir and the cable company, according to prosecutors. RCS&RDS and several former managers in the company were also sent to court for bribery, money laundering. editor@romania-insider.com