Adviser to Bucharest Mayor, Arrested for Bribery

An adviser to Bucharest Mayor has been arrested when he got bribed by a denouncer businessman.

According to a judiciary press release, quoted by the news agency Mediafax, Wigler Solomon has been caught taking 25,000 euros on Wednesday evening from a businessman.

The same source said that the businessman claimed that between 2012 and 2015, he paid over 200,000 euros as bribery to Mr. Solomon.

The bribery was supposed to facilitate the local council's approval of the construction of three supermarkets in the Romanian capital Bucharest.

Mr. Solomon couldn't be contacted for comment.

Bucharest Mayor Sorin Oprescu.
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Local media said that the denouncer businessman is associated with a company which develops some projects with the German food chain Kaufland.

In a press release, the Bucharest City Hall said that Mr. Solomon has been suspended from the office.

Wigler Solomon is a "personal adviser" to Mr. Sorin Oprescu, Mayor of Bucharest.

According to Mediafax, Wigler Solomon's wealth statement for the year 2013 stated that the mayor's adviser had 65,000 square meter domain in Popesti-Leordeni, near Bucharest, two houses and an apartment in Bucharest, three BMW and Audi cars, watches, jewelry and works of art worth 1.9 ml. euros.