





The only file in which former PM Adrian Nastase was investigated was suspended
On Tuesday the judge told Nastase's lawyers that the Ordinance contradicts article 115, lines 4 and 6 of the Constitution which rule that the government can adopt ordinances only in exceptional cases. The exception was acknowledged by all lawyers part of the trial.
The file investigates former PM Adrian Nastase, accused of illegally using money for the 2004 electoral campaign. Since the felony was made while Nastase was head of the Social Democratic Party and not when he was Prime Minister, he is not protected by any law and anti-graft prosecutors were able to send his file to trial without the consent of the Parliament.
Adrian Nastase is accused of taking 10 million Romanian lei from fictive commercial activities, which he used in his 2004 electoral campaign.