Romania's Baia Mare mayor sent to court for bribery

Romanian anticorruption prosecutors sent Baia Mare mayor Catalin Chereches to court on bribery charges, on Friday, May 20. According to the DNA prosecutors, Chereches demanded and received a bribe of about EUR 15,500 to support a local football team with public funds between March and September last year. He also promised to offer the club about EUR 222,000-266,000 in exchange for a stake in a company. The operation failed to complete so the mayor asked for EUR 88,700 from the man who later denounced him. The anticorruption prosecutors caught the mayor red-handed. editor@romania-insider.com