FILE PHOTO: Romanian Deputy Prime Minister Sevil Shhaideh arrives at the National Anti-corruption Directorate headquarters, in Bucharest, Romania, September 22, 2017. Inquam Photos/Octav Ganea/via REUTERS
BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romanian anti-corruption prosecutors ordered former deputy prime minister Sevil Shhaideh on Wednesday to stand trial on charges of abuse of office, for illegally transferring state land to a county council long controlled by the ruling party's boss.
The pending trial against Shhaideh, 53, deals a further blow to the leader of the ruling Social Democrat Party (PSD) who was sentenced to jail in a separate abuse of office case earlier this month in a preliminary verdict that can be appealed.
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