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schema:articleBody	The boss of a Romanian state-owned company was charged with corruption on Tuesday over a deal to acquire medical equipment to fight the coronavirus pandemic, prosecutors said. Adrian Ionel demanded a 760,000-euro ($860,000) bribe to help a company secure the contract for three million surgical masks and 250,000 medical gowns, according to the Anti-Corruption Directorate (DNA). Ionel is the CEO of Unifarm, a firm responsible for procuring equipment and drugs for public hospitals and other healthcare facilities. Ionel was charged with abuse of office and bribe taking after prosecutors said he struck a deal in a meeting in a Bucharest restaurant with a middleman for the private company that was awarded the work. The prosecutors said only one million masks were delivered and even those did not meet safety standards. Prosecutors further allege that after that shipment, Ionel cancelled the contract when the bribe he demanded was not forthcoming. "I'm innocent and I'm waiting to prove this", Ionel told the Mediafax news agency on Tuesday. He has been banned from leaving Bucharest and from performing his role at Unifarm while the investigation continues. The DNA's chief prosecutor Crin Bologa told a press conference last month that the agency was probing 33 cases of possible corruption in the procurement of virus-related equipment. "There are people and companies which have tried to take advantage of this pandemic," Bologa said. Romania's healthcare system already suffered from corruption and under-investment before the pandemic and over the past few months frontline medical staff have complained of a shortage of equipment, some going so far as to resign in protest. Romania's comparatively high levels of corruption mean its judicial system has been under special monitoring from Brussels since it joined the European Union in 2007. Romania has so far reported 24,505 cases of the novel coronavirus and 1,539 deaths. ii/jsk/jxb
schema:headline	Romania brings charges over 'corrupt' virus mask deal
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schema:datePublished	2020-06-23 (xsd:date)
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