It said the transactions ended in December with the downfall of the Ceausescu regime.

Meanwhile, investigations continued into related offences under the Ceausescu regime.

But then they ran into players who had been resourceful enough to survive the Ceausescu regime, which says a lot about them.

"They were criminals, nothing else," he said of those who had supported and sustained the Ceausescu regime.

Kate could think of dozens of stronger reasons for pulling down the Ceausescu regime.

Yet, to keep the country quiet, the Ceausescu regime has had to tighten the screws in the 1980's.

She spent six weeks in Romania at the height of the repressive Ceausescu regime.

But no matter what the final total may be, the Ceausescu regime has crossed a line which sooner or later should prove fatal for it.

But it is difficult to imagine more spectacular abuses than those that occurred during the Ceausescu regime.

They correspond for years, finally reuniting in 1989 after the fall of the Ceausescu regime.