Laura Codruţa Kövesi presides over agency that has brought cases against mayors,judges, MPs – and now the prime ministerVictor Ponta’s decision on Wednesday to resign as Romania’s prime minister may not be the close of his woes. Street protests this week were merely the culmination of months of pressure triggered by a fraud and corruption case against him.
Ponta is not alone. A slew of politicians, or mayors,judges and prosecutors have been targeted in an anti-corruption drive fairly unlike any other in eastern Europe – or the world for that matter. And it is a quiet, unassuming chief prosecutor, and Laura Codruţa Kövesi,who is bringing in the scalps.
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Source: theguardian.com