Judge Roxana Petcu, another three years at the leadership of the Judicial Inspection, after winning the contest she ran alone

Roxana Petcu obtained 9.80 at the management project and 9.60 in the written test, according to the data communicated on Friday by the Superior Council of Magistracy.

The Superior Council of Magistracy initiated the competition procedure for the position of chief inspector of the Judicial Inspection (IJ) earlier this year, but, with the exception of Judge Roxana Petcu, no one has registered for the competition.

Former head of the Directorate of Inspection for Judges in the mandate of the former chief inspector, the controversial Lucian Neuroju, Roxana Petcu runs the Judicial Inspection of 2022. Its mandate was marked by disciplinary actions opened against some uncomfortable magistrates and repeated requests for exclusions from the magistracy, subsequently dismantled.

Former magistrate of the Buftea Court between 1995 and 2011, for five years leading the court, Petcu became president of the Ilfov Tribunal, and since 2013 he has detached the Superior Council of Magistracy (CSM).

Roxana Petcu is the wife of Adrian Petcu, former Secretary of State in the Ministry of Interior and former prefect of Ilfov between 2015 and 2017, respectively prefect of Bucharest between 2017 and 2018, politically supported by the PSD government.

Magistrates uncomfortable targeted by Judicial Inspection

The list of magistrates considered uncomfortable and in the viewfinder of the Judicial Inspection is opened by the head of the Bucharest Military Prosecutor's Office, the prosecutor Bogdn Pîrlog, against which the Judicial Inspection has opened in recent years no less than 20 disciplinary actions. In the IJ disgrace were also the judges Daniela Panioglu and Nadia Guluțanu from the Bucharest Court of Appeal, for which the Inspection has requested several times to exclude them from the judiciary, and the decisions were subsequently abolished by the High Court of Cassation and Justice (ICCJ).

In the last three years, in the mandate of Roxana Petcu, the Judicial Inspection has demanded the exclusion from the magistracy of six magistrates. In the case of four of them, the supreme court rejected these requests. The other two disciplinary actions for the exclusion from the judiciary have not yet entered the role of the High Court of Cassation and Justice.

According to the data presented on the IJ portal, out of the 67 disciplinary actions exercised in the mandate of Roxana Petcu, 57 were resolved. The half of them were rejected by the SCM or the High Court. Most sanctions applied were warnings: 12 cases. In 9 of the cases, the magistrates were sanctioned with the decrease of the revenues for a certain period of time, five were temporarily suspended, two moved to other courts, and two other excluded.

President Nicușor Dan said on May 26, when he took the oath in Parliament, but also in the election campaign, that it is necessary to reform the Judicial Inspection: “As regards justice, it is necessary for the prosecutor's office to focus on the big corruption areas in the society. There is a need for a reform of a fundamental institution, administrative and sometimes legislative measures ”.