Following a request of the Justice minister, the Senate yesterday agreed that PRM (Greater Romania Party) Senator Corneliu Vadim Tudor would be sent to Court for “having spread false information,” a crime punished by up to five years in prison, according to the Penal Code.
A number of 88 Senators voted in favour of this decision, while another two MPs voted against it. PRM representatives and their leader did not attend debates or the vote.
This is the third time when the PRM Senator is lifted the parliament immunity so that justice may start the criminal investigation against him, for slander or for spreading false information “harming Romania’s interests.”
The Senate’s Juridical Commission inherited from the former legislative bodies another eight files by which the Justice minister demanded that the Senator’s parliament immunity should be lifted.
A number of 100 penal complaints against the PRM leader are registered with the General Prosecutor’s Office within the Supreme Court of Justice.