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BUCHAREST, Romania – Prosecutors on Friday detained Romania's Prince Paul in a case of alleged real estate fraud involving a top aide to a former prime minister and a newspaper editor.
Prosecutors ordered businessman Remus Truica, the former head of Cabinet of ex-Premier Adrian Nastase, be put under house arrest Friday. Truica has been charged with setting up a criminal group in 2006 that is alleged to have fraudulently acquired 170,000 square meters (1.8 million square feet) of state-owned land for Prince Paul. The fraud is estimated at 136 million euros ($150 million).
Paul was questioned Friday afternoon and later handcuffed and detained in the central city of Brasov, where the probe is being conducted. He denies wrongdoing and says he is a victim of Truica.
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