Romania’s anticorruption prosecutors have extended the charges against former Bucharest mayor Sorin Oprescu, adding money laundering, abuse of power and establishing an organized crime group to the list. Prosecutors had previously indicted Oprescu for bribery.

They have also seized a residential property and a land plot belonging to Oprescu, and another building belonging to his life partner, up to the amount of EUR 811,000.

The prosecutors held Oprescu on September 6, and he has been under arrest since. According to DNA, Sorin Oprescu was part of a very well organized group within the public administration that asked companies to pay bribes in order to get public contracts from various authorities subordinated to Bucharest’s City Hall. The group functioned between 2013 and 2015.

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