BUCHAREST, Romania — Romania’s top legal body on Tuesday rejected the justice minister’s request to oust the country’s chief anti-corruption prosecutor because he considered her unfit for the job. The prosecutors’ department of the Supreme Council of Magistrates said it would not recommend that Romania’s president remove National Anti-Corruption Directorate Chief Prosecutor Laura Codruta Kovesi in a 6-1 vote. She also responded to justice minister’s contention that the Anti-Corruption Directorate was too costly. Kovesi said the office’s budget was 27 million euros ($33 million) in 2016, of which one-tenth was spent on actual probes. Successful prosecutions also netted the federal budget 226 million euros ($276 million) that year, she said.

Source: National Post February 27, 2018 16:48 UTC