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Trial Btw Oil Tycoon – Intelligence Service Postponed

The Bucharest Court of Appeals postponed on Thursday the trial involving oil tycoon Dinu Patriciu and the Romanian Intelligence Service, or SRI, on procedural grounds.
10 ian. 2008, 12:48, English
The next court term was set for February 14, 2008.

The Court of Appeals in December decided it cannot open the trial between Patriciu and SRI, as the information presented by the prosecutors is considered state secret, and the respective court lacks the competence to rule in such matters.

The panel of judges appointed to rule in the trial asked that the Court name another panel of judges certified by the National Register Office of State Secret Information, or ORNIS.

The new panel of judges is to rule whether the respective information can be admitted as evidence in the file.

Mid-February 2007, Patriciu’s lawyers submitted with the Bucharest Court a complaint against the Intelligence Service regarding the illegal tapping of several of Patriciu’s phone calls.  

The judges of the Bucharest Court of Appeals asked that the Public Ministry give information on the number of interception warrants issued for Dinu Patriciu and Romania’s second largest oil company Rompetrol between 1994 and 2005, if there are any.