Reuters: Romania to investigate official's use of police escort after outrider dies
Wednesday, February 10, 2016
(Reuters) - Romanian investigators accused a former general prosecutor on Tuesday of using unauthorised police escorts in one of the highest-profile graft inquiries against a magistrate in 27 post-Communist years. Only the president and prime minister are entitled to such escorts, which became widely loathed during the rule of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu who used dozens of Communist militia bikers to escort him and secret service agents to force other ...