Romania court orders TV station to pay damages to prosecutor
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A Romanian court has ordered a television station to pay damages to Romania's anti-corruption prosecutor for making defamatory remarks about her.
The appeal's court in Ploiesti ordered Antena 3 and three commentators Tuesday to pay 300,000 lei ($79,000) in damages to National Anti-Corruption Directorate Chief Prosecutor Laura Codruta Kovesi.
The court told the station to issue an apology to Kovesi for three consecutive days. The ruling can be appealed.
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Kovesi sued the station over a 2014 talk show where allegations were aired that she and others had received a 2 million-euro ($2.46 million) bribe from a mobster to halt an investigation into the brother of then-President Traian Basescu.
She said the false "allegations of an extreme gravity were made with the sole goal of undermining (her) personal and professional authority."