ZIUA has reached hot documents showing that key state institutions have been used by a small group of people using the pretext to fight against corruption and criminality. The politicians in power in the 1998-2000 worked secretly to found a National Interforce Unit, which gave birth to the self titled GOC (Central Operative Group). The group was financed for logistics by the Ministry of Finance.
In this group there were recruited certain persons from the main secret services and the Interior Ministry together with prosecutors who continue to hold key positions, even if the political regime changed. The GOC was meant to "prevent deviating behavior by monitoring the action" of high officials and magistrates, to proceed to spying and audio-video interception, to make up "legends" and play in "games and operative combinations". Numerous businessmen and high officials became targets of such means.
The political police system has continued to exist under all regimes. The only difference is that some time ago it was decided that audio-video interception obtained without a warrant might no longer be used as evidence in Justice. But, just as before, it continues to be a terrible instrument for blackmail in the hands of those who are in control of such information.
Impressing set
Once Romania got closer to civilized Europe, every system got to establish more and more pompous anti-corruption structures in order to persuade citizens that they indeed pursued to eliminate corruption and organized criminality. Romania has nowadays got the most impressing set of anti-corruption structures in Europe. But the results are nothing, unfortunately. The reason is that the fight against corruption has been simulated and it has served those in power. Secret services and courts are far from being independent and serving citizens. On the contrary, such structures are subordinate by invisible ways to Presidency and some political groups who select and appoint people to head the respective structures. (...)
In the last year the methods used have grown subtler. As recordings obtained without permission may no longer be used in lawsuits, they have gone on intercepting on grounds of all sorts of warrants released on the names of persons close to the personalities at stake (relatives, colleagues and so on), until the 'target' is entrapped a criminal case can be drawn.
What is most concerning about such activities is that no prosecutor or secret agent has even been accused of the numberless breaks of human rights committed: illegal intercepting, followed by blackmail with the information thus collected.
Razvan Savaliuc
Ziua Vineri 06 Iulie 2007 http://www.ziua.net/english
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