Romania’s National Anticorruption Department has detained a total 97 border police and customs workers at border crossing points in western Romania suspected of corruption and smuggling. The Bucharest Court of Appeals has so far ruled in favor of the preventive arrest of 86 suspects and has yet to rule on arrest warrants for the rest.

Yilmaz Yildirimlar, the general manager of the Radisson Blu hotel in Bucharest, has been appointed district director with Rezidor for South – East Europe. He will coordinate six hotels in Romania, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Bulgaria.

Coca-Cola Hellenic's sales in Romania went down by 4 percent in volume last year, to 167.8 million unit cases, mainly due to difficult economic conditions and to the austerity measures, which have affected consumption demand, according to the company.

Romanian anticorruption prosecutors on Wednesday indicted National Customs Authority head Radu Traian Marginean on charges of corruption, people close to the matter told Mediafax newswire. Marginean was heard by prosecutors Wednesday in a case of influence peddling at the Halmeu customs, northwestern Romania. He was appointed National Customs Authority head in February 2009 and is also fiscal authority ANAF vice-president.

US company Hunt Oil has moved its London office to Bucharest, after having signed a partnership with OMV Petrom on two exploration licenses in Romania in September last year.

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German rock band Scorpions will play a concert in Bucharest on June 9, at Zone Arena, part of their

Air carrier Carpatair posted a turnover of EUR 74 million last year, up 14 percent on the year before, the company has announced. The number of passengers Carpatair transported in 2010 reached 570,000, an increase of 13 percent on 2009.

Car traffic will be shut down for the following nine months on Splaiul Independentei in Bucharest, between the Central Biology Institute and Piatra Craiului St., according to the Bucharest Municipality.

E.ON Romania posted a turnover of EUR 942.3 million in 2010, comparable to the one posted the year before, according to the company. E.ON Romania sold 3.4 TWh of electricity last year, up on 3.3 TWh in 2009, while its sales of natural gas totaled 25.8 TWh – down on 26.3 TWh in 2009.

Romania’s trade deficit narrowed to EUR 9.46 billion in 2010, from EUR 9.86 billion a year earlier, the country’s statistics institute INS said Wednesday. Exports rose 28.1 percent on the year to EUR 37.2 billion in 2010, while imports were up 19.9 percent to EUR 46.7 billion.

French businessman Alexis Bonte, who has previously invested in videosharing website Trilulilu and in online strategy game eRepublik, has recently invested in the recruitment website Tjobs.ro. Bonte, along with Fundatia Post Privatizare and Andreas Cser, an angel investor based in London, have provided EUR 0.5 million for the development of the recruitment website.