“No one was looking for me.” The Judicial Inspection, notified a month ago to carry out checks after the Redcorder documentary, did not hear any prosecutor
Marius Voineag, chief prosecutor of the DNA. Photo: Alex Micsik / Agerpres
The Judicial Inspection did not hear any prosecutor who spoke publicly in the Recorder documentary about the problems in the judiciary, write the journalists from Recorderwhich accuses that the checks launched a month ago are blocked at the top of the Inspection.
In mid-December, after the appearance of the documentary “Captured Justice”, the Section for Prosecutors of the Superior Council of the Magistracy notified the Judicial Inspection regarding the activity of the head of DNA Marius Voineag, accused by several prosecutors of having blocked criminal investigations concerning high corruption cases. Prosecutors from the SCM asked the Judicial Inspection to “verify all the aspects reported in the press material”.
Effects of the Recorder documentary. The Judicial Inspection announces that it is conducting checks: “Part of the presented elements were already in our attention”
According to the Recorder, an order from the Deputy Chief Inspector of the Judicial Inspection limited the scope of the checks.
In a first phase, on December 19, the deputy chief inspector of the institution, prosecutor Robert Fleckhammer, signed an order appointing the members of the inspectors' team and setting a deadline for the presentation of the results of the checks: January 20, 2026. A few days later, on December 24, the deputy chief inspector issued a second order, which radically changes the trajectory of the investigations and asks the inspectors to focus on general matters and even favorable to Marius Voineag, head of DNA, writes the journalists from Recorder.
“Practically, the second order cancels the first one, and the goal was to restrict the objectives of the control. The prosecutor's department asked to check possible interferences by the head of the DNA, and now the inspection changes the meaning of the checks, namely to check how the orders were communicated to the DNA management”, explained a former judicial inspector to the Recorder journalists.
Prosecutor: “No one from the Judicial Inspection was looking for me”
The prosecutors who appeared in the documentary Captured Justice stated that they were not wanted by anyone from the Judicial Inspection, although they are willing to talk.
“No one from the Judicial Inspection sought me out. I will tell them many problems generated by my dismissal that I could not disclose publicly, but which should be important topics for the inspection's analysis”, military prosecutor Liviu Lascu, interviewed in the documentary “Captured Justice”, told the Recorder.
Both the head of the Judicial Inspection, Poxana Petcu, and deputy Robert Fleckhammer refused to provide details about the status of the checks, citing confidentiality, the Recorder writes.
On Tuesday, the head of the Judicial Inspection stated in an interview for the Juridice platform that the accusations of the magistrates interviewed in the Recorder material are: “imagined victimization”, “noise made by magistrates and former magistrates who considered themselves above the law”, “whining and non-fulfilment of those too weak for the activity of a magistrate”.
Asked by Recorder journalists if such statements could affect the impartiality of judicial inspectors, Petcu denied: “In no case. You are mixing things up. In the interview, I referred to your part of the material that referred to the Judicial Inspection, the other part is something else, those are other checks, they are being done, the inspectors who are there are to see.”
