Top Judicial Watchdog Dismisses Controversial DNA Ploiesti Prosecutor

The decision comes as the prosecutor is embroiled in a case which sees him accused of forging evidence and threatening witnesses, together with his former DNA Ploiesti chief Mircea Negulescu.

The Prosecutors’ Section is the only body which can revoke a prosecutor from office.

However, the body rejected on Monday evening a request made by prosecutor Adina Florea from the Section for Investigating Judicial Crimes (SIIJ) to arrest the two prosecutors.

Onea and Negulescu are both accused of forging evidence and threatening witnesses in their cases. SIIJ decided on Friday, however, to extend the accusations in the case, with the entire DNA Ploiesti structure to be investigated under the suspicion of setting up an organized crime group, according to judicial sources.

The two were questioned by SIIJ prosecutors on Friday, after other DNA Ploiesti prosecutor were similarly brought before the section on Thursday.

Former MP Vlad Cosma accused in early 2018 that the prosecutors coerced him into filing a denouncement against a fictitious Moldovan citizen, and also made him forge a list allegedly showing Moldovan voters who had received electoral bribes. He said that the two prosecutors coerced him to commit the offence by threatening to launch a criminal case against his sister, current social-democrat MP Andreea Cosma.

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