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Radu Mazăre in the year 2003 introduced the "tax for increasing the degree of peace and security in carrying out economic activities in
Constanța, Mamaia and Sat Vacanţa" (taxa pentru creșterea gradului de liniște și siguranță în derularea activităților economice în Constanța, Mamaia și Sat Vacanță).
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reported that the
National Anti-corruption Department had accused Mazăre, along with 36 other municipal employees, of corruption, abuse of public service, forgery, and criminal complicity. The group was charged with giving €114 million ($ 144 million) worth of state-owned land along the coast of the
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uniform, together with his son, who was also wearing a Nazi uniform. He explained that he "always liked this uniform, and admired the rigorous organization of the German army". According to Mazăre, "I checked it before I put it on but the swastika was very small and I didn't see it". Two days later
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Tax”. The tax remained uncontested until 2015, when the president of the ACIA, civic activist Andrei
Popescu, initiated a campaign to collect signatures to end this abuse. The campaign had a real support from the people of Constanta, gathering over 7,000 signatories.
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resort, subject to appeal. Subsequently, on 8 February 2019, Mazăre was handed a final 9-year imprisonment sentence in the Mamaia affair. In May 2019 he was repatriated to
Romania under an international warrant, to serve 9 years in prison.
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Constanta, in 2009. Among the population, this tax was also called: "Mazăre's
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In May 2018, Mazăre received a six and a half-year prison sentence for abuse of power in a case related to the sale of a 15,000 sqm-plot of land in the
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In July 2017, after nine years of trial, Mazăre was convicted and given a three-year suspended sentence for the illegal sales.
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Another controversial event took place in July 2009 when, during a fashion show, Radu Mazăre participated wearing a Nazi
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Black Sea and public beaches in
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in damages after the Anti-corruption
Department refused to provide information about the qualification of the experts.
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Radu Mazăre, condamnat la 9 ani de închisoare cu executare. Verdict definitiv al Înaltei Curţi de Casaţie şi Justiţie
389:"Former Constanta mayor, Radu Mazare, under judicial control, flees Romania to Madagascar, asks for political asylum"
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he issued a public apology to Jewish organisations, declaring that by wearing the uniform he wanted to pay homage to
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in 1996. He later resigned due to "differences between electoral promises and realities of government".
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563:"Radu Mazăre a transmis o scrisoare de scuze organizaţiilor evreiești"
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