The CSM approved Laurentiu Beșu's request to be appointed prosecutor. The judge had made revelations in the Recorder documentary

The Superior Council of the Magistracy approved the request of Laurentiu Beșu to be released from the position of judge in order to be appointed to the position of prosecutor in Giurgiu. The decision of the CSM was taken, on Tuesday, by unanimous votes and is to be approved by the President of Romania.

“The section for prosecutors of the Superior Council of the Magistracy decided to submit to the President of Romania the proposal regarding the appointment of Mr. BEŞU IONEL-LAURENŢIU as a prosecutor at the Prosecutor's Office attached to the Giurgiu Court, and as a consequence, his release from the position of judge at the Tribunal
Bucharest. (unanimity)”, says a statement from the CSM that presents the decisions taken in Tuesday's meeting.

What the procedure provides

The procedure provides that, upon their reasoned request, judges can be appointed as prosecutors at the prosecutor's offices attached to the judges, and prosecutors can be appointed as judges at the judges, by decree of the President of Romania, at the proposal of the CSM Section.

Among the 14 judges who requested to become prosecutors is Laurentiu Beşu, who is a magistrate at the Bucharest Court and requested to be appointed a prosecutor at the Prosecutor's Office attached to the Giurgiu Court.

Beșu was questioned in the prosecutor's department of the CSM from 12:00, the interview lasting about an hour. “I went to an interview to go to the prosecutors, so to speak. It's a moment in life when you see things differently and it's good to make a change. It was absolutely my decision, no one influences me”, declared Laurentiu Beșu.

Asked how he comments on the accusations that he collaborated with those from DIPI (“Two and a quarter”) he stated: “I worked at DIPI between 2006-2011. Including Mr. Buliga Andrei worked, I don't see what the problem would be.”

He says he doesn't know about today's decision and “it will be revealed later”. “The decision is in the hands of the members of the Prosecutors' Section, I don't know. They asked me what the reasons were, what experience I had before,” said Beșu, who specified that he had not received any questions related to the data from the Recorder documentary.

“Always when you make a change, you think there are good things you lose or good things you gain. I thank my colleagues who (support me) and it is the right decision. As my colleague Moroșanu also said, if we don't change something now, I don't think it will ever change. I thought it was time for the people of Romania to know the truth. If the truth bothers me… if the request is not approved, I will stay with the judge”, he added.

The revelations from the Recorder documentary by judge Beșu

In the documentary broadcast on Tuesday evening, December 9, by Recorder, entitled “Captured Justice”, judge Laurențiu Beșu makes revelations about serious facts that happened at the Bucharest Court of Appeal (CAB), the court where he worked for a while, after being transferred, by delegation, from the Giurgiu Court.

Laurentiu Beșu said that, after he came to the CAB, his new colleagues told him that he was moved because they no longer wanted him to be part of the panel that tried the doctor Mircea Beuran, accused of corruption.

“I was approached by the president of the Giurgiu Tribunal, who proposed that I go to the Bucharest Court of Appeal, that the Court called and now is the time to make a decision, to think and tell her on the same day. I thought and said that yes, it is a good decision to promote. This stagnation in the profession also intervenes and you think about evolving”, said Beșu, in the “Captured Justice” investigation.

“The judges at the Bucharest Court of Appeal, Section II, were perplexed by my arrival there. Later, there were discussions with colleagues from the Court, who told me: “You see that you had a file there and, as far as we know, it is a practice that in sensitive cases there are changes in the composition of the panel”. And then I realized that I had the file of Mr. Dr. Beuran pending at the Giurgiu Court. (…) No I raised the issue that there is a connection between the alleged promotion and a certain file”, the judge stated in the documentary.

“Some colleagues, who are older there (at the Court of Appeal, no) assured me that “be sure there is a connection”. The case was resolved by another colleague, with an acquittal solution. We do not comment on the colleagues' solutions. An appeal was formulated, at the Bucharest Court of Appeal, and the acquittal solution remained”, added the judge.

Later, Laurențiu Beșu stated in the Recorder documentary, his delegation to the CAB was extended several times, until the spring of this year, when he joined a panel that had an appeal pending in the case of Niculae Bădălău.

At the hearing of the appeal, he had a different opinion from his colleague from the panel, and shortly after he was informed by the head of the CAB section that his delegation would not be extended.

The Bucharest Court of Appeal accused him of lying and asked him to urgently clarify his status. In reply, Beșu said, for Euronews, that “everything I said is true and can be verified from the documents from the CAB or with information from the court portal”.