DNA chief Kovesi heard by CSM on Judicial Inspection report, says the team had divergent opinions

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National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) chief Laura Codruta Kovesi is heard by the Superior Council of Magistracy (CSM) Friday morning, in regard to the Judicial Inspectorate’s recent report.

The report envisaged the managerial efficiency and the way the attributions are met by the DNA management, and if the procedural norms and regulations are observed.

According to Kovesi, the report drawn up by the Judicial Inspectorate did not follow the structure and methodology was missing. Kovesi underscored that during the control there were divergent opinions of the control team members, although the methodology is unitary.

“We have found that these different views amongst the members of the control team have materialized in various verbal reports and reports that have been submitted to the inspection and which, from our point of view, are from outside the DNA and we have absolutely nothing to do with these different opinions. We made available everything we were asked for. (…). The Control Team Coordinator told us that some documents, files, should not be checked. Subsequently, another team asked us for these files, and we handed them over,” the DNA chief said, antena3.ro informs.

“There are three control papers. One is called control report and is signed by three inspectors. Then three inspectors have signed only some pages – a procedure I haven’t met during my 22-year career – and  there is a separate opinion signed by other three inspectors, by which the director of the directorate with the Judicial Inspectorate admits the structure was not observed by the norms,” Kovesi also said.

“Even the structure of the regulation was not respected. It is assumed that the team that conducted this control knows very well the DNA regulation and the internal chart. (…). We have found many statements that contain unreal, erroneous or even contradictory aspects on the same issues,” Kovesi said.

The head of the control team, Elena Radulescu, submitted on Thursday to the CSM the Judicial Inspectorate point of view following the control.

She claims the inspectors were humiliated during the checks conducted.

The Judicial Inspectorate presented on October 6 the conclusions drawn after the inspection, saying that Kovesi has built prestige for the DNA and has the necessary qualities to run the directorate, with efficient results in 2016 and in the first quarter of 2017.

On the other hand, the Judicial Inspectorate concluded the report on the National Anti-corruption Directorate’s activity, proposing that the chief prosecutor Laura Codruta Kovesi to be disciplinary investigated, but not to be replaced from office.

Judicial inspections have found out several irregularities at the DNA, among which there are deferral of some investigations, long-term procedural documents missing in some files or random assignment of the cases.

According to the report quoted by Antena 3 TV, the Inspection has tracked down a case that was older than 11 years, other file older than seven years, another two files older than six years, three files older than five years and eight files older than four years.

As for the DNA chief prosecutor, judicial inspectors argue that she is avoiding, among others, admit her own responsibility in case of failure.

Judicial inspectors have lost a note, Kovesi says

The DNA Chief Prosecutor has revealed during the Friday’s hearing that the judicial inspectors had checked certain files and certain activities. Kovesi even presented a note she claims to have found among the documents that were previously verified. On the note were written two file numbers, one of the files being ‘extremely important’.

“During the inspection some files were searched, some documents, certain activities have been checked, some of the files have been read by some of the control team. I have here a note of the many lost by the Judicial Inspection. It was lost, in the sense that it was put amid some documents I went to get up from there, probably lost. It can be noticed that two file numbers are written on it. After that, one of the judicial inspectors completes from the registry where that file is and what happened to it. One of the files is extremely important. I wonder why an inspector, who checks the DNA, comes up with notes with file numbers, then takes the 2004 records and writes down some issues. It is very simple to find whom this writing is,” Laura Codruta Kovesi said, digi24.ro reports.

 

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