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A police line is seen in front of the house of Romania's former Prime Minister Adrian Nastase, one day after he committed a suicide attempt, in Bucharest June 21, 2012. Nastase has successfully undergone a neck surgery after he tried to kill himself on Wednesday when police came to take him to start a two-year jail term for corruption, doctors said. Nastase, who will turn 62 on Friday, is the most senior politician to be convicted in Romania since the end of communist rule in 1989 in a case touted as proof that the poor European Union member is getting tough on graft.

A police line is seen in front of the house of Romania's former Prime Minister Adrian Nastase, one day after he committed a suicide attempt, in Bucharest June 21, 2012. Nastase has successfully undergone a neck surgery after he tried to kill himself on Wednesday when police came to take him to start a two-year jail term for corruption, doctors said. Nastase, who will turn 62 on Friday, is the most senior politician to be convicted in Romania since the end of communist rule in 1989 in a case touted as proof that the poor European Union member is getting tough on graft.