How did Romania end up with a “captured justice system” by an interest group made up of magistrates and politicians. The pact between the camps, exposed by the Recorder / The system “doesn't bother the powerful anymore”
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The Recorder published an investigation Tuesday night with “unprecedentedly serious” testimony from the justice system, which “talks about high-corruption cases in which judges are tipped to make decisions favorable to defendants, about the flagrant violation of the principle of random assignment of cases by discretionary changing of court panels, about how disobedient magistrates are marginalized.”
The publication, which stated that the two-hour documentary “compresses more than a year and a half of investigative work”, claims that “high corruption cases are 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”.
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