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Главни тужилац у ДНК у Румунији добија нову улогу након отпуштања због неспособности и недоличног понашања
Laura Codruta Kovesi was dismissed this month from her post as Chief Prosecutor at Romania’s National Anticorruption Department (DNA). She was almost immediately re-allocated a new position by Prosecutor General Augustin Lazar, who decided on Wednesday, July 11, to appoint Ms. Kovesi as Prosecutor at the Guidance and Control Service within the Prosecutor’s Office attached to the High Court of Cassation and Justice. There, she will be responsible for the implementation of the National Anticorruption Strategy for the period 2016 – 2020 at the level of the Public Ministry. Her role will involve updating anticorruption strategies and developing strategies for prosecutors’ offices.
Ms. Kovesi’s dismissal from her position of Chief prosecutor at the DNA on 9 July 2018 came by presidential decree, in accordance with the decision of the Constitutional Court (CCR). President Klaus Iohannis said that his decision to dismiss Kovesi from the position of DNA chief prosecutor should be understood as “a step towards respecting the Constitution and the rule of law”. He also said the fight against corruption will continue in Romania “in full force.”
Ms. Kovesi’s dismissal was due to misconduct and incompetence. In a February report, Justice Minister Tudorel Toader had accused Kovesi of being authoritarian, and claimed that prosecutors under her command had falsified evidence and an inordinate number of defendants had been acquitted. Ms. Kovesi was accused of repeatedly abusing her authority. There have been a series of scandals involving Ms. Kovesi and the DNA which called into question the organisation’s methods and motives. The first scandal broke in the summer of 2017 when an audio recording emerged in which Ms. Kovesi could be heard instructing her subordinates to pursue investigations against the Prime Minister and his cabinet colleagues in order to “put pressure” on the government in retaliation for their efforts to limit her authority. Although Ms. Kovesi insists that the recordings were falsified, she failed to produce any independent or verifiable evidence to back up her claims and this accusation has remained against her.
A further set of recordings came to light this year, revealing attempts by two senior DNA prosecutors in 2015 to force a witness to fabricate evidence in the case against Sebastian Ghita, a media owner and former MP who fled Romania the following year. According to the witness – another former MP – prosecutors threatened to target his family unless he co-operated and claimed that they were acting with the approval of their superiors, including Ms. Kovesi. Yet more evidence was produced as part of a parliamentary inquiry into the activities of the intelligence services launched last year. This inquiry revealed the existence of 65 secret protocols linking the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI) with the DNA and a wide range of other law enforcement, judicial and administrative agencies. The revelations about these protocols caused concern both inside the country and internationally about human rights and constitutional propriety in Romania.
These scandals have provided evidence for what has long been a fear in Romania: that the DNA, under Ms Kovesi, pursues politically-motivated prosecutions, that it fabricates evidence, that witness testimony is extracted through intimidation and blackmail, and that it acts without regard for constitutional limits, democratic scrutiny, the separation of powers or the rule of law. That the DNA has been behaving like this does not come as a surprise to many in Romania. But that the person at the helm of the DNA – immediately after being dismissed over these concerns – should straight away get a new role in the same field, is highly surprising, even by Romanian standards.
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