Macovei's secret

-- Upon the former Justice minister's order, a team of military experts searched through the DGPA (General Directorate for Protection and Anti-corruption, the secret service of the Ministry of Justice) - SIPA (Service of Intelligence and Anti-Terrorist Protection, the secret service of the Ministry of Interior) archive in 2005, but the outcome of the investigation hasn't been made public
ZIUA daily in possession of address no113595, issued from he Ministry of Justice on 14 December 2005, by counselor Mihai Pruna. He informed the "SoJust" Association on the partial results of the control the experts from the Ministry of Defence carried out through the archives of the secret service of Justice. The audit the military carried out revealed the fact that SIPA (Service of Intelligence and Anti-Terrorist Protection, the secret service of the Ministry of Interior) officers, many of which came from the ex-Securitate (the communist secret police), abusively investigated acts of corruption of some magistrates and State officials. The former management ordered the destruction of some documents that should have been preserved for 5 to 30 years, according to the law. Also, the lack of an organizational structure and of internal control procedures for the fund allocation was identified in the financial field. The admission procedure in the system wasn't always observed, in that that some candidates weren't psychologically tested and they weren't requested to submit their police record. A report on the Defense's secret control at SIPA's archive was submitted, in 2005, to the European Commission. Macovei didn't inform the Romanian public opinion on these irregularities and didn't take the necessary legal measures against those who had violated the law. Moreover, informed sources told us that SIPA also made use of a mobile phones tapping technique similar to the one of the secret service of the Ministry of Interior, led by Virgil Ardelean at that time.

Ovidiu Banches
Ziua Luni 18 Iunie 2007 http://www.ziua.net/english