Romania PM Victor Ponta. Demotix/Putan Cornel. Some rights reserved.Romania’s Prime Minister Victor Ponta missed a hearing with anticorruption prosecutors today, following being called in for questioning earlier this month at the headquarters of the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA), a specialized agency that is charged with investigating high-level corruption.
The premier claimed on his Facebook page to have flown out to Turkey for ‘complicated’ surgery on his knee, after Ponta’s lawyer asked prosecutors to postpone the hearing.
Ponta, whose centre-left Social Democratic Party (SNP) has a comfortable majority in Parliament, is suspected of over 17 counts of forgery, conflict of interest, tax evasion and money laundering.
