The Chamber of Deputies approved the arrest of former minister Elena Udrea, MP in several secret votes late on Monday night.
Six requests of the National Anticorruption Directorate concerning Udrea passed the plenum vote — three approvals of criminal investigations and the corresponding permissions to take her into custody.
One of the cases involving Udrea is the so-called 'Microsoft file' on the public acquisition of software licenses. She is also charged of one count of accepting bribery in the 'Bute Gala', a boxing event.
Finally, DNA had asked to replace Udrea's release under judiciary control, decided on January 29, with the preventive arrest, also in the Microsoft case.
The anticorruption prosecutors can now take the MP into custody for a maximum of 24 hours, pending the eventual approval of a court necessary to arrest her for a maximum of 30 days.AGERPRES
Deputy Elena Udrea says the Parliament missed 'an opportunity' by voting to approve her investigation and arrest. She claimed she assumed her destiny.
'The topic should not be my fate, but how Romania will look ruled from the shadow, in a discretionary and occult way, once truth is suppressed,' Udrea wrote on her Facebook page.