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July 27, 2000
BUCHAREST (AP) - Romania's soccer federation has temporarily suspended a referee until UEFA concludes an investigation into allegations that a Romanian soccer team tried to offer prostitutes to visiting referees here, media reported Wednesday. The federation has pulled Florin Chivulete from his duties as referee pending the UEFA ruling, on charges that he did not properly inform the federation about a Romanian club's attempts to bribe French referees in charge of an Intertoto Cup match. Chivulete, who holds a FIFA card, was accompanying the French referees and one German observer during their stay in Romania, for an Intertoto Cup match Cotidianul daily said Wednesday. UEFA said the issue was raised by the body's delegate to the July 15 match between Ceahlaul Piatra Neamt and Austria Vienna in Romania. Chivulete told private Antena 1 television late Tuesday that the French referee who filed the complaint "is at the beginning of his international career and just wants to establish a good name for himself as being incorruptible." Chivulete said the French referee mistaken identified four women as prostitutes; they were actually members of a folk ensemble and had been accompanied by four men. "When the four men in the ensemble exited the room to change and put on their folk costumes, the women asked permission to drink a coffee, which they did at the other end of the very long table we were sitting at," Chivulete was quoted as saying by Libertatea daily on Tuesday. "At that point Moulin stood up and said he wanted to go to the hotel. We all left. I was told later that he complained to the observer for `excessive hospitality'. If I had been told then and there I would have been able to clarify things," he said, according to Libertatea.
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