DNA chief Kovesi to BBC: Huge risk for the judicial system

In a comprehensive feature about the National Anticorruption Directorare (DNA) chief Laura Codruta Kovesi, the BBC presents her personality and her achievements as spearhead in the fight against corruption in Romania. Kovesi has warned on the huge risk on the judicial system coming from amendments to the legal framework.

“Romanians trust in DNA is quite remarkable,” she told the BBC in an interview.

“More and more people came and submitted complaints, they were willing to give witness statements regarding corruption cases. And all that because the Romanian citizens noticed that the law is equal for everybody. This is what we do,” she told the BBC.

Kovesi added that “all the parties have members who were investigated by DNA.”

Ms Kovesi strongly opposed the recent government decree that would have decriminalised some corruption offences and seen dozens of officials freed, the source reads.

She estimated that the changes would have had an impact on one in three cases brought forward by the DNA. “Starting from now, it will be a huge risk for the judicial system, in each day,” she says. “Because in each day we can find out about another modification, we can find out about the changes of our jurisdiction or maybe our office can be dissolved or not exist anymore.”

BBC says the success of the DNA under her leadership has made Ms Kovesi a star.