Alin Petrache, the President of the Sports Olympic Committee (COSR), is accused of plagiarism in two articles and in a book published in 2012-2013. Former PSD Deputy Alin Petrache is also a lecturer with the National Defence University.
The Romanian Centre for Investigative Journalism (CRJI) journalists say that the articles ‘Theories on fatigue producers’ and ‘The somatic type and training’, which were published by the Bulletin of the ‘Carol I’ National Defence University, contain entire fragments taken from other works without citation or footnotes, ziare.com reports. According to the source, 99% of the article ‘Theories on fatigue producers’ is copied, word by word, from the book ‘Recovery – physiotherapy in sports’, third edition, ‘Romania de maine’ Printing House, 2009.
Also in 2013, Alin Petrache published, at the Military Publishing House, the book ‘Sports and the army’, a book dedicated to his grandfather, which includes various plagiarized fragments, the source reads.
As he is currently in Brazil for the Olympic Games, accompanying the Romanian delegation, Alin Petrache has sent to CRJI an email saying an error occurred and has promised the withdrawal of the articles and the review of the book.
Alin Petrache stressed that the articles did not bring him any professional benefit, “as proof I have the position of lecturer for 11 years,” he said. However, the cited source points out that the works suspected of plagiarism could be considered in the event of advancement in academics.
Regarding the book, Alin Petrache said that taking over some ideas and paragraphs from other papers was not deliberate “but only due to carelessness in the final drafting of the book”.
“In the future revised edition, which I hope to conclude after the end of the Olympics, I will make the necessary rectifications,” Petrache wrote in the message.