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Romania’s Supreme Court Lifts Judicial Supervision in Kovesi Case

Romania’s Supreme Court admitted on Wednesday the challenge by prosecutor Laura Codruta Kovesi against the measure of judicial supervision ordered in a case where she is accused of several offences in the 2011 repatriation of a fugitive businessman.
Romania’s Supreme Court Lifts Judicial Supervision in Kovesi Case
Ionut Preda
03 apr. 2019, 19:58, English

The former National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) chief prosecutor confirmed that the measure was lifted, including her interdiction to leave the country. The decision is final and cannot be appealed.

Romania’s Section for Investigating Judicial Offences (SIIJ) indicted Kovesi last week and ordered the measure of court supervision for a 60-day period.

Judicial sources told MEDIAFAX that, under the order, the prosecutor was forbidden from leaving the country without the case prosecutor’s agreement, to talk to the media regarding the acts under investigation and to discuss with General Prosecutor Augustin Lazar.

SIIJ prosecutors accused Kovesi that she requested businessman Sebastian Ghita in 2011 to pay for the repatriation of a fugitive businessman, Nicolae Popa, from Indonesia, while she was Romania’s General Prosecutor.

Kovesi is currently the subject of negotiations between the European Parliament and the EU Council regarding the first EPPO chief prosecutor. The former DNA chief has the support of the Parliament, while the Council prefers French magistrate Jean Francois Bohnert. The two institutions are scheduled to have several rounds of negotiations on the subject in the coming weeks.