The court ruling is not definitive.
The deputy governor’s lawyer has previously announced that Olteanu will resign on Monday.
Olteanu was detained by anticorruption prosecutors on Friday in a corruption probe.
The National Anticorruption Department (DNA) said in a statement there is data and evidence showing that in 2008, Bogdan Olteanu, as lower house speaker, had requested and received EUR1 million and electoral support from a businessman to persuade the Romanian government members to appoint a certain person as governor of the Danube Delta.
Prosecutors announced Friday morning that Olteanu was detained for 24 hours, on charges of influence peddling, in a case involving the controversial businessman and former media mogul Sorin Ovidiu Vintu, who is currently serving a jail sentence of 6 years and two months in a separate case.
Prosecutors accuse Olteanu of having received a bribe of EUR1 million, as well as marketing and consultancy services, for his political campaign from Vintu. Prosecutors said Olteanu got the money from Vintu through an intermediary at the headquarters of a political party. Olteanu was a member of the National Liberal Party (PNL) at that time. Vintu spent the EUR1 million so that Liviu Mihaiu could be appointed governor of the Danube Delta. Mihaiu was appointed to this position in September 2008. Several other people are also investigated in this case.
Olteanu has been one of the nine-member central bank board since 2009 and lower house speaker in 2006-2008.
Romania’s central bank on Friday said Olteanu’s attributions would be taken over by other members of the bank’s executive management team. It also said the investigation targets Olteanu’s activity before his joining the central bank as deputy governor.
In the last two years, Romanian prosecutors have begun investigations against some of the most powerful and well-connected people in Romania.