The battle of Kovesi, Romania’s anti-bribe heroine now head of the European prosecutor’s office against corruption

BERLIN. Laura Codruta Kövesi has been used for years to face challenges and even threats from corrupt or suspected politicians in power, often sovereign but not only. For years in Romania she was the heroine judge of the anti-corruption fight, sent to prison a thousand excellent corrupt and unmasked even the most powerful of them, the father-godfather of the socialists Liviu Dragnea.