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Caritas was a Ponzi scheme in Romania that was active between April 1992 and August 1994. It attracted millions of depositors from all over the country, who invested more than a trillion old lei (between US$1 billion and $5 billion) before it finally went bankrupt on 14 August 1994, having a debt of US$450 million ($925 million in current terms).
Sentenced to 8 years in prison for abuse of office in a case related to illegal retrocession of lands in Romania's capital. [35] 22 May 2015: Ioan Niculae (Richest man in Romania in April 2014, according to Forbes) 2009 Sentenced to two years and a half imprisonment for illegally financing the Social Democratic Party's presidential campaign in ...
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Andrew Tate said he broke a woman's jaw and that his business was a 'scam' ahead of Romanian arrest Kat Tenbarge and Morgan Sung and Mircea Barbu Updated January 20, 2023 at 7:55 AM
Another peculiarity of Romania is that gun violence is exceptionally rare [4] due to Romania having some of the strictest gun laws in the world. Most homicides are committed with sharp objects such as axes or knives. Among homicides in 2012, only 2% were by firearms, [4] and among suicides in 2015, only 1% were by firearms. [5]
In Italy, most of the Romanian criminals are involved in theft and pimping, however, in Turin, they created an Italian-style mafia within their local community, extorting money from Romanian night-clubs that ran prostitutes, and would impose their own businesses and singers on weddings by force.
A Willy Wonka inspired 'Chocolate Experience' in Glasgow, Scotland, was 'where dreams go to die,' one actor hired for the event said.
The company was established in 1966. In 1999, after 33 years, the Romanian government sold Dacia to the French car manufacturer Groupe Renault. It is Romania's largest company by revenue [6] and the largest exporter, constituting 8% of the country's total exports in 2018. [7] In 2021, the Dacia marque sold 537,074 passenger and commercial ...