17 October 2011
Judges at the Bucharest Court in Romania sent the chief of the National Unemployment Agency Silviu Bian to prison on Sunday for taking bribes from his own employees in order to approve EU funds for their local institutions. He will be under arrest for 29 days.
He received around 46,400 Euros in total from employees so that he would approve and pay 25 per cent of the EU money projects for human resources - the money was co-financed by the institution. Bian, who is a state secretary, received the money from the employees' salaries.
The National Anticorruption Department said it has evidence that, besides the 20,000 Euros (82,000 RON) he was caught receiving on 15 October, Bian received another 22,000 Euros and 4,400 Euros (19,000 RON) on 17 September from staff of local employment agencies to allow the continuation of EU-funded projects the institutions were involved with.
Bian was appointed head of the employment agency in January 2009. He had held the same position between 2005 and 2007. Prime Minister Emil Boc dismissed him from his position on Sunday.
Source: Romanian Times.
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