Misuse of Insider information

Petre Tobă, the minister of intern affairs reigned after the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) prosecutors allegated him of refusing to declassify some important official documents about the expanditure of operative funds of the Department of Intelligence and Internal Protection.

After the European commission called for VW to be “fair” in compensating victims of the dieselgate scandal, questions have been raised over its actual capacity to force the German carmaker to do so.

Forty-five MEPs were voted into the European Parliament's new inquiry committee tasked with uncovering potential failures of EU institutions to disclose information related to the dieselgate emissions scandal.

European Commissioner for Industry Elżbieta Bieńkowska increased the pressure on Volkswagen to compensate European consumers, as it has done for US drivers, for its diesel emissions scandal, potentially adding to a hefty bill.

The European Parliament voted today (17 March) to launch a committee of inquiry into the Volkswagen emissions scandal, with a mandate to investigate the failures of the Commission and Member States to enforce EU legislation. The left wing of The European Parliament managed to force the vote onto the agenda for Thursday's plenary session at the last minute.

Governing body to allow individual federations to decide whether Russians can compete.

The Prosecutor' s Office of Riga City Vidzeme District has decided to prosecute and held criminally liable seven people from the medical staff of VSIA Riga Eastern Clinical Hospital of University (Austrumu Slimnīca). As informed, one person has been accused about inactivity of public official, four persons are held criminally liable for requesting and accepting unlawful benefits. While two persons are accused about process organisation of requesting and accepting unlawful benefits.

General inspection of security forces (GIBS) began to investigate whether Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Andrej Babis (hnuti ANO) has an internal information from the Organised Crime Combating Unit (UOOZ). In doing so, A. Babis publicly advocated this Unit and for its planned merger with the Corruption and Financial Crime Combating Unit he threatened to leave his political party from the government.