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Prime Minister Mihai Tudose's decision to remove from office senior official with the Transport Ministry Ninel Cercel was published on Friday evening in the Official Journal of Romania.
National Anti-Corruption Directorate (DNA) prosecutors on Friday ordered senior official with the Transport Ministry Ninel Cercel to be detained over blackmail after he had taken action to remove from office the manager of the Brasov Regional Freight Centre (CZM) so that privately-owned transport companies may obtain a freight contract with chemicals works Azo Mures SA to the detriment of the CFR Marfa national freight railway corporation.
According to DNA, Cercel allegedly used as a pretext to dismiss the head of the CZM Brasov a fire that broke out on a freight train carrying ammonium nitrate on October 31, although the incident did not take place in the area under his responsibility.
Ninel Cercel was summoned before the Brasov Tribunal, to be served a 30-day pre-trial detention order.
