General Prosecutor: New Magistrate Investigation Section Will Take Over 1,400 Cases

“About 1,400 cases will be taken over. It is an important volume of cases. It will start its activity today, we will have a press statement,” the general prosecutor told journalists on Tuesday.

The cases Lazar is referring to were previously handled by the country’s top anticorruption agency.

The section was operationalized on Tuesday morning, with appointed magistrates arriving to the General Prosecutor’s Office headquarters in Bucharest to begin their activity.

“I do not have any nerves, we are doing this for twenty years. It’s a job like any other. We need to be correct and balanced. I have twenty-one years of experience in the magistracy,” said section prosecutor Codruta Chindea.

Among the section’s initial prosecutors is also Adina Florea, Justice Minister Tudorel Toader’s nomination for the lead office of Romania’s National Anticorruption Directorate. Her nomination was forwarded to President Klaus Iohannis and is currently pending.

The section’s chief prosecutor is Florena Strechi, who previously worked within the General Prosecutor’s Office.