The Mayor of Constanta Radu Mazare, currently in custody in the case where he is charged with bribery, resigned from his position on Friday, May 22.

Mazare allegedly took a EUR 9 million bribe to help some companies get authorizations, according to prosecutors. He submitted his resignation to the City Council and City Hall through a handwritten letter.

“My desire to do good to the city and its inhabitants does not justify the injustices, distress and anguish to which I was subjected for so long, for which I resign as mayor of Constanta,” according to the letter, reports local Mediafax.

Radu Mazare has been the mayor of Constanta for 15 years. “Even if sometimes I was too rebel or nonconformist, I have devoted all my skills and energy to the community. I apologize to everyone for my mistakes,” he wrote in the resignation letter.

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