No magistrate has yet contradicted the head of the SCM who stated that a pension of 2000 euros is small for a prosecutor or a judge. The system is aligned behind it ready for prolonged conflict.
The head of the European Prosecutor's Office Laura Codruţa Kövesi
The politicians, the only ones with special pensions who were forced to cut themselves, replied the supporters of the magistrates. The social-democrats rather be silent while the judges and prosecutors attacked the ideas of the prime minister to reform the pensions of the magistrates, during PNL, USR and UDMR have only a few statements, who did not lead to the transformation of Ilie Bolojan's sketch into a serious legislative project.
Meanwhile, the Association of Movement for the Defense of the Statute of Prosecutors has launched a public statement in which it demonstrates how difficult the prosecutor's work is due to the shortcomings in the legal system, the “daily pressures” and the “precarious balance” between “vocation and exhaustion”. Prosecutors do not speak in their text about income, but only complain about work.
One of the examples given is the fact that each magistrate makes a weekly by rotation at each parquet or court, which means that, “if the phone rings, at any time of the day or night, you have to go to work or on the scene of committing an offense. There are no wage increases for this.”
Further, the prosecutors complain that in the smaller courts “it is done extremely often, so that the locality cannot be left for more than a week”, the new “difficult and impact” species must be “resolved quickly, and the perpetrator must turn into a defendant proposed for a preventive arrest”. Everything is very difficult because “from a phone call you have to create a file with all the useful evidence for the person to be removed from the society and placed to a preventive extent.”
It is understood that it is a tiring job, not easy, which, however, in Romania is not always done as a book. Recently, the head of the European Prosecutor's Office, Laura Codruța Kövesi told Freedom that, although Romania has the biggest deficit when it comes to VAT's collection and that in over 90% of situations it is about frauds, yet the local prosecutor's office does not find evaders: “From almost 400 files I investigated in Romania, there were only 12 files. which we received from ANAF ”. The rest of the files were opened on the basis of the information that the European Prosecutor's Office obtained from the other Member States and related to Romania.
Kövesi spoke about the complexity of these files and about the connections that the European prosecutors have found between the states: “We have, for example, a file in Spain or in France or Italy, we investigate it and see that there are connections with Romania, with Greece, with Poland.
The head of the European Prosecutor's Office says they would like to be contradicted by the chief prosecutor or the Attorney General and to hear from them that “there are thousands of files working with VAT fraud.” If it were true “then it would be another problem, because the files do not reach the European Prosecutor's Office.”
In Romania they work without disturbing the mafia from neighboring states and even the Italian mafia, but the domestic prosecutors do not discover them, nor do they seem very enthusiastic to throw themselves in their search, as Codruța Kövesi suggests. So, while the country sinks into deficit, justice remains non -functional, the great evasion with VAT are left free, because prosecutors are too caught up with pension protection scenarios. None has the courage to make a fiary outside the caste and say why, despite the wages and huge pensions, however, in Romania the money of the state cannot be defended.
Sabina Fati – DW
