The Mayor of Bucharest was arrested on a warrant issued by the National Anticorruption Directorate, taken to the headquarters of the prosecutors and searched. He had part of the marked bills on him, Kovesi added.
Oprescu's lawyer admits that investigators found money in the Mayor's house. However, he claims that the respective sum was not a bribe but a loan and the bills were not marked, they had consecutive serial numbers.
Even more important is the fact that denouncers never nominated Sorin Oprescu directly, the latter's defender pointed out.