Daniel Morar, a head of the DNA (National Anti-Corruption Department), asked Romanian President Traian Basescu yesterday for consent to the opening of criminal inquiry against the Romanian Justice minister Tudor Chiuariu. Last Monday the latter official had denounced prosecutor Doru Tulus criminally, demanding that he should be expelled from magistracy.
The very department headed by the latter prosecutor is in charge of the Justice minister case and authorities have it that the criminal inquiry is necessary in order to check on the circumstances under which emergency ordinance 377/2007 was released.
But the DNA head's solicitation also regards Zsolt Nagy, a member of the Democrat Union of Magyars in Romania and a former communication minister. Minister Chiuariu and ex minister Nagy are accused of abuse at work against public interests, effecting in patrimonial favor. The above-mentioned ordinance is on the transfer of the ex headquarters of the MICM on Victoriei Avenue, Bucharest, from the administration of the Bucharest district council to the Romanian Post Office's administration. Minister Chiuariu's signature is not on this document, but there are the signatures of the Romanian PM Calin-Popescu Tariceanu and the Romanian economy minister Varujan Vosganian. Still Daniel Morar hasn't said a word about it so far.
The Justice minister signed a documentation note on grounds of which the ordinance was approved of. Furthermore, the minister is said to have forced his staff into consenting to it.
While in Brussels yesterday, minister Chiuariu claimed it was about "a silly revenge of the DNA prosecutors".
President Basescu summoned a meeting of the presidential committee for next Monday.
It is to be noticed as well that, according to Cozmin Gusa, leader of the National Initiative Party, business of 110 million Euro is behind the scandal between the DNA and the Justice minister.
Razvan Savaliuc
Ziua Miercuri 19 Septembrie 2007 http://www.ziua.net/english
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