Romanian Senate asked to approve bribe probe of its speaker

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romanian authorities have asked the Senate to lift the immunity of its speaker to allow an investigation into whether he took an $800,000 bribe from an Austrian company.
A Senate member, Claudiu Manda, said Thursday that prosecutors have asked the Senate to vote to strip Calin Popescu Tariceanu of the parliamentary immunity that protects him from prosecution.
The National Anti-Corruption Prosecutors Directorate confirmed it was seeking to investigate an unnamed se