SRI suspected of political police activity

The report authored by the committee to check on the SRI (Romanian Secret Service) will stipulate that the institution is suspected of "political police" activity in the scandal on the notes written by the SRI deputy Florin Coldea on Constitutional Court judges. The information comes from sources in the committee who questioned the SRI chief. Sources say: "To ask on the phone for information about the Constitutional Court judges and to get it on the phone smells like political police. We can't prove that President Basescu was the beneficiary of the information, but the case in general casts suspicion on political police action".
SRI chief George Maior insisted that the internal inquiry on the above-mentioned scandal involving Florian Coldea denied accusations on SRI officers as participants to political police activities. The chief of Romanian counterintelligence claimed that there was no evidence to show that Coldea's notes had been deliberately sent by an officer of Mircea Geoana's and he argued that the only hypothesis at stake was information leak because of errors. He mentioned there would follow several administrative sanctions against several SRI members. Sources claim in some cases dismissal will be decided. The SRI chief insisted once more that by this scandal they had tried to attract the SRI in political disputes, such as the one on suspending the President of Romania Traian Basescu. (...)
Sources say the fate of deputy Coldea is sealed. The latter is reproached for having asked for information about Constitutional Court judges long after the National Council for Research on the Communist Secret Service Archive had got the data requested.
The initiative of the SRI deputy has got two possible reasons: either the SRI has still got records on Romanian state officials or they searched for data to compromise those who were to reach verdict on the suspension of the Romanian President.
Next Monday Maior is to announce the full outcome of the internal inquiry by the SRI, including the names of those guilty of leaks and sanctions against them. The committee is to complete report on the case next Tuesday.

by Razvan Gheorghe
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