This is a list of notable corruption scandals in Romania.
Investigations resulting in final sentences
People involved (office held/occupation)DateDetailsConviction date Liviu Dragnea (President of the Chamber of Deputies, President of Social Democratic Party) 2006–2013 Sentenced to years imprisonment for instigating to abuse of power. Radu Mazăre (former mayor of Constanța) (businessman) (former chairman of the Constanța County Council) 2004 Mazăre was sentenced to 9 years imprisonment for abuse of power in a case related to a sale of a 15,000 sqm-plot of land in the Mamaia resort. Cristi Borcea and Nicușor Constantinescu received a 5-year imprisonment sentence. Dan Șova (former senator and minister in several Ponta cabinets) 2011–2014 Sentenced to 3 years imprisonment and €100,000 forfeiture for influence peddling. Elena Udrea (former Minister of Regional Development and Tourism in all Boc cabinets) 2011 Sentenced to 6 years imprisonment and to an asset forfeiture of €2.6 million for bribery and abuse of power in the "Bute Gala" case The six-year sentence in the "Bute Gala" trial was suspended by the High Court of Cassation and Justice on 21 December 2018 following the Constitutional Court's ruling that all high court's judge panels had not been formed legally. - Adrian Severin (Member of the European Parliament (MEP))2010-2011 Convicted for bribery and influence-peddling in the 2011 cash for influence scandal. Sentenced to 4 years imprisonment. (Businessman)Gabriel Sandu (Minister of Communications between 2008 and 2010)Gheorghe Ștefan (former Mayor of Piatra Neamț)Nicolae Dumitru (ro) (Businessman) 20082010 Microsoft licensing corruption scandal: Dorin Cocoș, businessman and former spouse of Elena Udrea, was sentenced to 2 years 4 months imprisonment (in March 2016 sentenced to 2 years imprisonment) for influence peddling and money laundering, and to an asset forfeiture of €9 million (previously to €3 million). Gabriel Sandu was sentenced to 3 years imprisonment (previously to 2 years imprisonment) for bribery and money laundering, and to an asset forfeiture of over €2 million. Gheorghe Ștefan was sentenced to 6 years imprisonment (previously 3 years imprisonment) for influence peddling and to an asset forfeiture of over €3 million. Nicolae Dumitru was convicted to 2 years 4 months imprisonment (previously years suspended sentence), $2,050,000 and €1 million forfeiture (previously €1 million forfeiture and 90 days community service). (former chairman of the Constanța County Council) 20092013 Sentenced to five years imprisonment (before the appeal to years) for abuse of power in a case related to the underfunding of the Zonal Military Center in Constanța (Businessman) 20112016 Sentenced to 4 years imprisonment for influence-peddling by taking bribes from a Roma clan in return for promising to secure the early release of the clan's convicted boss, Sandu Anghel aka Bercea Mondialu'''. Mircea Băsescu is the younger brother of Traian Băsescu, the former president of Romania, as well as the godfather of Sandu Anghel's granddaughter.
| Veronica Cîrstoiu (Judge at the Bucharest Court of Appeal) |2012 |Convicted for receiving a bribe of approximately €630,000 and using her influence to reach a favourable judgement for a defendant in a criminal case. Sentenced to 7 years imprisonment
| Liviu Dragnea (Member of Parliament; Leader of the Social Democratic Party; former Deputy Prime-Minister) |2012 | Convicted for using his political influence to mastermind a campaign in swinging a referendum (impeachment) vote against former president Traian Băsescu in 2012, through the use of bribes and forged ballot papers. He was handed a suspended sentence of 2 years.
| Gheorghe Hânsă (Mayor of Cernavodă) | 20052008 | Sentenced to 3 years 8 months for official misconduct by concluding contracts detrimental to the town's finances. His son, Tiberiu Marius Hânsă, was sentenced to 3 years 2 months for complicity in the crime perpetrated by his father.
| (Member of Parliament, former President of the Dâmbovița County Council) | 2012 | Sentenced to 2 years imprisonment for official misconduct. Using his position as leader of the local Democratic Liberal Party organization and President of the Dâmbovița County Council, Florin Popescu requested a local entrepreneur that 60,992 kilos grilled chicken be delivered to him. Subsequently, Florin Popescu distributed the chicken to the potential voters during the electoral campaign for the 2012 local elections.
| (Member of Parliament) | 20102012 | Sentenced to 3 years in prison for influence-peddling, instigation to money laundering, embezzlement and forgery.
| Constantin Boșcodeală (Mayor of Buzău) | 20022008 | Sentenced to 3 years probation for official misconduct and banned from running for the mayor office for 5 years
| Codruț Șereș (Minister of Economy) | 2002–2004 | Sentenced to 4 years imprisonment for embezzlement of funds belonging to the Hidroelectrica company
| (Founder and President of the Grampet Group; CEO of Grup Feroviar Român, the largest private rail cargo company in Romania) | 2013 | Sentenced to years probation and 90 days community service for influence buying
| Marian Neacșu (Member of Parliament, Secretary-General of the Social Democratic Party) | 2009 | Sentenced to 6 months probation for conflict of interest after illegally hiring his own daughter at his MP office
| (Member of Parliament) | 2005–2006 | Sentenced to 3 years probation for instigation to official misconduct in a case related to illegal retrocession of land plots in the Merei commune, Buzău County.
| Adrian Grăjdan (Head of the State Inspectorate for Constructions (ISC)) | 2012 | Convicted for the crime of favouring the perpetrator (obstruction of justice) when four days after he was appointed Head of the ISC, he withdrew all the graft claims of the ISC against convicted former prime minister Năstase, despite the fact that the ISC suffered damages amounting to €1.5 million. Sentenced to years probation.
| Nicolae Matei (Mayor of Năvodari) | 2012 | Convicted for attempting to bribe a high-ranking policeman with two plots of land in Năvodari valued at €46,160, in return for shielding Nicolae Matei from a criminal investigation by influencing the evidence against him. Sentenced to years imprisonment.
| (Member of Parliament) | 2012 | Convicted for requesting a 130,000 lei (€31,000) bribe in return for influence-peddling. He received 60,000 lei (€14,300) in three installments that he partially used for election campaigning. Additionally, he indirectly received products for his election campaign with a value of 535,000 lei (€127,400). Sentenced to 2 years imprisonment.
| Mihai Toader (CEO of Romanian Post) | 2008 | Sentenced to years in prison for acquiring software products from a Cyprus-based company at a price overvalued by 12 times. The damage is estimated at €6.5 million.
| (Mayor of Sector 6 (Bucharest)) | 2006 | Sentenced to 8 years in prison for abuse of office in a case related to illegal retrocession of lands in Romania's capital.
| 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 2009.
| Monica Iacob Ridzi (Minister of Youth and Sport) | 2009 | Sentenced to five years in prison for embezzling money that was spent by the Ministry on the Youth Day festivities
| Miron Mitrea (Member of Parliament) | 2001–2002 | Sentenced to 2 years imprisonment for receiving a €300,000 bribe in exchange for keeping Irina Jianu as chief-inspector of the State Inspectorate for Constructions.
| Constantin Nicolescu (Senator; former chairman of the Argeș County Council)Gheorghe Nicuț (Mayor of Curtea de Argeș)Andrei Călin Ioan (Mayor of Câmpulung)Ştefan Ion (Mayor of Budeasa)Ioan Popa Ioan (Mayor of Stâlpeni) |2006-2008 | Convicted for using false documents to contract financing of €900,000 from European funds that should have been used to revamp four schools. Revamping work was carried out by a company called Zeus SA. Nicolescu was also convicted for having taken a €60,000 bribe from businessman Cornel Penescu and sentenced to 7 years in prison.
|George Copos (Wealthy businessman; Member of Parliament; Deputy Prime-Minister) |2004 |Sentenced for 4 years imprisonment for tax evasion of around $1 million that was linked to the sale of several retail spaces from his company, Ana Electronics, to the Romanian National Lottery.
| Dan Voiculescu (Senator; Founder of the Conservative Party; Wealthy businessman/Oligarch; former Securitate agent) (Director of the Food Research Institute) | 2003 | Voiculescu was sentenced to 10 years in prison for using his political influence in the privatization of the Food Research Institute which had an estimated value of €7.7 million, but was instead bought by his company, Grivco at an undervalued price of €100,000. According to the prosecutors, the damages brought to the Romanian state amounted to over €60 million.
| Sorin Apostu (Mayor of Cluj-Napoca) | 2009–2011 | Sentenced to years in prison for taking a €94,000 bribe in exchange for signing contracts related to the car insurance of the City Hall's cars and garbage trucks.
| Gabriel Boriga (Mayor of Târgoviște) | | Convicted for buying playgrounds equipment from his godson's company at a price estimated to be €100,000 higher than the market prices for that particular product. He received a 3-year suspended sentence. | 23 May 2014 |- | (Mayor of Râmnicu Vâlcea) | 2012 | Sentenced to 4 years in prison for receiving a bribe in exchange for awarding a contract for the construction of an overpass.
| Relu Fenechiu (Minister of Transportation) | 2002–2004 | Fenechiu sold a number of old electrical transformers to Electrica Moldova at a highly inflated price of 2.8 million €. He was sentenced to 5 years imprisonment.
| (Member of Parliament) | 2002–2004 | Sentenced to 1 year imprisonment for receiving a 3000 lei bribe (ca. 670 Euro)
| Tudor Chiuariu (Minister of Justice) Zsolt Nagy (Minister of Communications)Mihai Toader (General Manager of the Romanian Post) | 2005–2007 | Chiuariu and Nagy illegally transferred some real estate owned by the Romanian Post to a private company. Chiuariu received a suspended sentence of 3½ years, while Nagy received a suspended sentence of 4 years.
| (Member of Parliament)Costel Zamfir (Mayor of Bradu) | 2007 | Pandele received a 190,000 lei bribe in exchange of illegally issuing a land deed. He was sentenced to 5 years imprisonment.
| Adrian Năstase (Prime Minister of Romania) | 2001–2004 | Năstase received as bribe some Chinese-made building materials and furnishings worth €630,000 from a construction entrepreneur, Irina Jianu, who, in exchange, was appointed the director of the State Construction Inspectorate. He was handed a four-year prison sentence for taking bribes and a three-year prison sentence for blackmail, to run concurrently.
| (Member of Parliament) | 2009–2010 | Păsat was sentenced to 4 years imprisonment for blackmailing mayors of Giurgiu County communes to obtained contracts for his private company, Prod Invest SRL.
| (Mayor of Deva, Member of Parliament) | 1999 | Muntean, as mayor, performed a land exchange with Iosif Man, through which the City Hall lost an estimated $360,000. He received a 4-year suspended sentence.
| (Mayor of Craiova) | 2002–2004 | Solomon received a €50,000 bribe from businessman Cornel Penescu in order to issue a building permit for a hypermarket. Sentenced to 3 years in prison.
| (Member of Parliament; Director of Romsilva) | |Dumitru acquired for Romsilva for $294,330 a Ukrainian-made 1970s bulldozer that had a value of $6,250; the equipment was never used as it was not suitable for the task it was bought. He received a 3-year suspended sentence.