Olteanu was already under arrest, after he was initially placed under house arrest for 14 days.
Olteanu is accused that in 2008, in his capacity as speaker of the Parliament’s lower house, of having requested and received EUR1 million and electoral support from businessman and former media mogul Sorin Ovidiu Vintu to persuade the Romanian government members to appoint journalist Liviu Mihaiu as governor of the Danube Delta. Vintu is currently serving a jail sentence of six years and two months in a separate case.