Romanian foreign minister faces criminal complaint after repatriation scandal
Romania’s foreign minister, Oana Țoiu, is facing a criminal complaint filed with the National Anticorruption Directorate, or DNA, after a scandal involving the repatriation of Irina Ponta, the 17-year-old daughter of former prime minister…
Radu Dumitrescu · Journalist
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Romania’s foreign minister, Oana Țoiu, is facing a criminal complaint filed with the National Anticorruption Directorate, or DNA, after a scandal involving the repatriation of Irina Ponta, the 17-year-old daughter of former prime minister Victor Ponta, amid the conflict in the Middle East.
The scandal broke out on March 5 after the former Social Democrat (PSD) prime minister and his ex-wife Daciana Sârbu accused Țoiu, backed by the reformist center-right party Save Romania Union (USR), of having intervened so that his daughter would not be on a plane back to Romania from Dubai.
