Bucharest Court of Appeal decides start Ion Iliescu’s trial in the Revolution case
The Bucharest Court of Appeal decided on Wednesday to start the trial of Ion Iliescu, Gelu Voican Voiculescu and Iosif Rus, in the case of the Revolution. The decision is not final and can be appealed within three days of communication.
“It orders the start of the trial in the case regarding the defendants Iliescu Ion, Voiculescu Voican Gelu and gl. (rtr.) Rus Iosif”, the court minutes show.
The Supreme Court decided in February to send the Revolution file to the Bucharest Court of Appeal, on the grounds that it would be within its competence because at that time Ion Iliescu was not president of Romania.
The General Prosecutor’s Office announced on August 3, 2022 – almost 33 years after the Revolution – that it had sent back to the court the file of the Revolution, in which former President Ion Iliescu, former Deputy Prime Minister Gelu Voican Voiculescu and General Iosif Rus, former head of the Military Aviation.
The file of the Revolution had been sent to court by military prosecutors in April 2019, with over 5,000 civil parties being cited in the process. The trial was blocked for more than a year, for the discussion of requests and exceptions raised by the parties in the file.
In May 2021, however, the Revolution file was sent back to the Prosecutor’s Office by the Supreme Court, for several problems in the indictment, and the General Prosecutor’s Office announced in August 2022 that the “irregularities” found by the High Court of Cassation and Justice had been “removed” and it was ordered to send in trial.
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