Sorin Apostu, the Mayor of the Romanian city of Cluj-Napoca, was arrested on Wednesday evening for 24 hours on bribery charges. According to the National Anticorruption Agency (DNA), Sorin Apostu allegedly took bribes of EUR 94,000 between 2009 and 2011 for sanitation and car park insurance contracts. The amounts were collected through his wife’s law office, and his wife is charged in the same case. He was presented to the Court of Appeal in Cluj with the proposal to be arrested for 29 days. This proposal was approved by jdge Ioana Morar.Sorin Apostu, 44, became the Mayor of Cluj-Napoca in February 2009, after the city’s then-Mayor, Emil Boc, was named the country’s Prime Minister. Sorin Apostu was elected with 60 percent of the votes. Before that, he was the City Hall’s director, and then Deputy Mayor.
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