Verdict: Guilty

Prosecutors Department in the CSM (Superior Council of Magistracy) admitted yesterday the CSM Inspection's check report on the activity of the DNA (National Anti-Corruption Department), after admitting 12 insignificant objections raised by the DNA head Daniel Morar. Right after the CSM reached verdict on grounds of the unveiled deficiencies, the Romanian Justice minister Tudor Chiuariu wrote a solicitation to revoke prosecutor Doru Tulus, a head of Department II in the DNA, pointing to poor management and inappropriate activity.
Surprisingly enough, the Justice minister didn't ask that the other DNA officials and head Daniel Morar should be revoked, despite the deficiencies in their activity. The revocation of prosecutor Doru Tulus is to be analyzed in a future meeting of the CSM, most likely next week.
Despite the severe dysfunctions unveiled in the report, the CSM has got no right to take measures. According to the law, it is only the President of Romania that may appoint or revoke the head of the DNA, if the Justice minister suggests it and if the CSM consents. Therefore the final decision is up to President Basescu, the official who appointed Doru Tulus at the suggestion of Monica Macovei, Romania's ex Justice minister. In case of no presidential decree, Doru Tulus may not be sacked.
The CSM prosecutors also decided to make new checks on the DNA in 6 months' time and see if the deficiencies were settled. (...)
Allowed to raise objections
Daniel Morar raised several objections against the CSM inspectors who had checked on the activity of the Department II in the DNA, headed by Doru Tulus. He accused them of amateurishness. His demonstration was skilful, meaning he avoided to take up the essential components of the checks and the deficiencies noticed. All he did was raise procedure matters and argue there were no norms that he had to do one thing or the other. He claimed the CSM inspectors had broken the check methodology and described their report as "inhomogeneous", "incomplete" and "unreliable". (...)
The DNA head also commented that the inspectors had "overpriced the relevance of the deficiencies discovered" and demanded that from the report they should eliminate all references to those criminal cases involving phone call recordings, claiming they were cases in progress and the references might jeopardize the inquiries.

Razvan Savaliuc
Ziua tuesday 9 october 2007 http://www.ziua.net/english