President Iohannis accepts General Prosecutor's resignation

Romania's General Prosecutor Tiberiu Nitu has resigned on Tuesday evening. The Presidential Administration announced shortly afterwards that President Klaus Iohannis has received Nitu's resignation and accepted it. 

"Although the CVM [Cooperation and Verification Mechanism of the European Commission - editor's note] report validates the result of my work as head of the Public Ministry [Public Prosecution], and so do data to be reported in March, as my name and the position I represent are artificially associated to a situation that might impact the image of the institution I manage, I have decided - as a gesture of responsibility and honour - to submit my resignation from the position of General Prosecutor of the Prosecutors' Office of the High Court of Cassation and Justice," [Romania's Supreme Court], Nitu wrote in a media release, also denying any wrongdoing. 

Tiberiu Nitu is mentioned by the National Anti-corruption Directorate (DNA) as an illegal beneficiary of some police motorcades, in a criminal case opened against former Internal Affairs Minister Gabriel Oprea.

Upon announcing his resignation, Nitu says he never had a motorcade in the legal sense of this term, but got a police escort proportional to the risk associated to his position, as per the legal norms in force.AGERPRES