“Captured Justice”. In a Recorder investigation, Marius Voineag is accused by a prosecutor who speaks anonymously that the head of the DNA wants control over the files

Recorder aired an investigation on Tuesday evening about the state of justice in Romania.

In the Recorder investigation, the military prosecutor Liviu Lascu, Crin Bologa, the former chief prosecutor of the DNA between the Kovesi and Voineag periods, as well as a prosecutor from the DNA who spoke anonymously, were interviewed.

Both Lascu and the DNA prosecutor under anonymity claimed that since coming to the institution, Voineag claimed “control over the files”.

“This never happened under the former leadership,” Lascu said.

The prosecutor, whose identity is protected by the Recorder, said that ever since Voinea came to the institution, the case prosecutors were asked to report every request, made to the judge of rights and liberties, to the chief prosecutor Voineag.

Applications to the rights and liberties judge generally relate to either detentions or searches or tracing of telephones and communications of those pursued in the files.

What is happening in the DNA is not an isolated situation, said the same prosecutor interviewed under the protection of anonymity, with a changed voice. The prosecutor stated that: “The state of resignation exists throughout the judicial system.”

“Captured Justice”

The Recorder, which said the two-hour documentary “compresses more than a year and a half of investigative work,” claims that “high-profile corruption cases are being systematically buried.”

“Famous defendants acquitted on appeal after in the first instance they had received heavy years in prison, trials delayed until the facts reach the statute of limitations, final convictions that are re-evaluated and wiped out with a sponge. In addition, suspicions of blocking criminal investigations began to hover over the DNA,” writes the Recorder.

One of the magistrates interviewed said that “the feeling is that whatever you do, you get away”. He also, at the last balance sheet of the General Prosecutor's Office, declared that our country “is in the situation of being closer to a criminals' paradise than to a state of law”.

The documentary, says the Recorder, attempts to explain the mechanisms by which an interest group made up of magistrates and politicians captured the judiciary.

“In a simplified form, the pact between the two camps looks like this: the politician offered laws that created a pyramidal organization of the justice system, putting all the power in the hands of a small group of magistrates, and this handful of magistrates in return offered a judiciary that no longer bothers the powerful,” writes the Recorder.

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