Worldwide, governments have paid Pfizer and other vaccine companies tens of billions of dollars for Covid shots that will never be used because of lack of demand

The Romanian Senate yesterday opened the way for prosecutors to investigate Florin Citu, Romania’s prime minister in 2021, for spending $1.1 billion on 53 million mRNA Covid jabs from Pfizer which Romania never used.

Citu now serves as a senator in Romania, a post that makes him immune from prosecution. The Senate voted 90-2 to lift that immunity and allow the investigation to move forward, Romanian news outlets reported.

Prosecutors are also examining the roles of two former Romanian health ministers in the jab purchase. All three may be charged with “abuse of power” (also translated as “abuse of office”), prosecutors have said.