USR's Fritz calls for DNA head's dismissal, justice law amendments after Recorder documentary
Chair of Save Romania Union (USR) Dominic Fritz has called on the Minister of Justice to initiate the dismissal procedure for the head of the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA), Marius Voineag, following information presented in the Recorder investigative documentary.
He also called for amendments to the Justice Laws to dismantle the 'pyramidal system of control' over magistrates and case files.
'The outrage sparked by the Recorder documentary must reach Parliament and topple the pyramidal system of control over magistrates and cases. The issue is political, and the solution can only be political. The goal is to rewrite the Justice Laws. The current laws are the result of a dirty deal between politicians and obedient figures within the judiciary, a profoundly immoral and undemocratic arrangement. Why did they do it? They wanted to end the anti-corruption fight that threatened their freedom and stolen wealth. And they succeeded,' the USR leader wrote on Facebook on Thursday.
According to him, statutes of limitation and acquittals are now 'rolling through on a conveyor belt,' erasing damages worth tens of millions of euros.
'We know who allowed the deal: Klaus Iohannis [former president, editor's note]. We know who legitimised it through their vote: MPs from PSD [the Social Democratic Party] and PNL [the National Liberal Party]. And we also know who carried it out, from both camps. USR opposed this from the start. Stelian Ion, the USR Justice Minister, was dismissed for refusing to continue the destruction of judicial independence initiated by Liviu Dragnea. USR was removed from government, and more cooperative figures were found,' Fritz added.
USR is demanding that the Minister of Justice immediately begin the procedure to dismiss Marius Voineag and urgently carry out an independent audit of the random allocation of case files.
'All promotions within the judiciary must be made through competitive selection, not through patronage as they are now. Anti-corruption expertise must return to DNA! I invite the Prime Minister and PNL Chairman Ilie Bolojan, and other government partners, to support us in these efforts. In a captured judiciary, no one is safe, neither I nor any citizen. Having a case on file is like Russian roulette. Politicians can repair the Justice Laws so that all citizens have access to a truly independent judiciary that takes its anti-corruption mission seriously,' the USR leader concluded. AGERPRES (RO - writing by: Irinela Visan; EN - writing by: Simona Iacob)
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