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Romanian civil servants sacked for AC/DC's 'Highway to Hell'
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BUCHAREST: Romania has sanctioned five civil servants after Australian rockers AC/DC got stuck on a “Highway to Hell” and were unduly asked to pay to leave the country. Four employees of Romania’s national roads company were sacked and one was demoted following the incident, which happened after the band played a concert in front of 60,000 fans in Bucharest on May 16, news agency Mediafax reported.
The company said earlier this month that the “overzealous” employees had stopped the band’s convoy at Hungarian border and demanded a total of 2,500 euros in so-called fines for allegedly failing to pay highway tolls.
AC/DC said in a letter to the company however that they had received no receipt for the fine, the company’s manager Doina Tiron told AFP.
After an internal investigation, the company decided to fire four inspectors who were involved in the incident, the director of the company for the Timisoara region, Ioan Malita, told Mediafax.
The local chief of the Control and Collection Agency at the border crossing of Nadlac was stripped of her managing post and will work now as a simple inspector, he added. -- AFP
