A new corruption scandal is about to emerge in the Sports and Youth ministry, this time involving new minister Sorina Placinta. However, the investigation of ex-Sports minister Monica Iacob Ridzi is not over and newspapers reveal that she attempted to get rid of the evidence incriminating her. The weather seems to reflect the heated debates on the political scene at the time: starting today, meteorologists forecast temperatures higher than 41 degrees Celsius.

Seems that Sports ministry is on the spotlight these days as even new minister Sorina Placinta is found to have some issues with the law, Evenimentul Zilei reads. Romania's National Integrity Agency discovered serious inconsistencies in the wealth declarations of the current minister.

According to sources within the agency, if the found inconsistencies will prove to be real, Placinta can face charges of false in declarations. The minister could not be contacted yesterday to comment on the issue. Moreover, her wealth declarations were taken off the websites of the Senate, the Government and the Sports ministry and only added a few hours later.

HotNews.ro revealed that Placinta "forgot" to mention her shares in a private company, Milcofil, where apparently several nepotism cases were detected.

Ex-Sports minister Monica Iacob Ridzi is under the attention of anti-graft prosecutors for trying to clean up the mess behind her and fabricate evidence, Cotidianul reads. For Youth Day, apparently Ridzi offered the contracts after a short negotiation by email with one company, without organizing a public tender.

The newspaper reveals that the Ridzi urged her employees, after the scandal broke to delete all emails and simulate a public tender. Romania's general prosecutor Laura Codruta Kovesi forwarded on Thursday a request to the Chamber of Deputies to approve a pe