On the very day she returned from Brussels, the Romanian Minister of Justice summoned the Prosecutor General to a tete-a-tete meeting yesterday to discuss the illegal motorcade issue. It was the first time the two high-offficials had such a discussion, although Tiberiu Niţu's involvement in the scandal was a matter of public knowledge as early as last year.
Raluca Prună does not overrule the possibility to have Tiberiu Niţu removed from office.
The Minister of Justice called the Prosecutor General to give explanations immediately after the news conference in which she said she would not make any decision before having a talk with him.
The official motorcade scandal has also troubled the peace of Interior Minister Petre Tobă, who was Chief of Police at the time when, according to anticorruption prosecutors, Gabriel Oprea was illegally using an official police escort.
Gendarmes formed a human shield in front of reporters to prevent them from asking Minister Tobă about his involvement in Gabriel Oprea's illegal motorcade case.
The relationship between Petre Tobă and Gabriel Oprea goes back a long way. Oprea was the one who made Tobă Chief of Police for the first time, back in 2009.