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The Romanian justice minister Radu Marinescu has made public the nominations for the leaders of key prosecutor’s offices.<\/p>\n
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The head of the Ia\u0219i regional service of the National Anti-Corruption Directorate (DNA), Cristina Chiriac, has been nominated for the prosecutor general post, while Viorel Cerbu, one of the current deputy chiefs of the National Anti-Corruption Directorate is nominated to take over the chief prosecutor position. Codrin Hora\u021biu Miron, who currently heads the Timi\u0219oara regional service the Directorate Investigating Organised Crime and Terrorism Offences (DIICOT, the anti-mafia prosecutor’s office), has been nominated for the new head of the institution.<\/p>\n
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The selection process was carried out between January 8 and March 2. The justice minister said he decided to nominate Cristina Chiriac for the position of Prosecutor General of Romania because she has extensive and high-level professional experience, coupled with remarkable legal training, and has demonstrated the ability to efficiently mobilise resources. Also, according to the minister, Cristina Chiriac pays special attention to ensuring the operational independence of prosecutors, which is seen as a fundamental pillar of the rule of law and a key prerequisite for preserving trust in the Public Ministry. She is known for having investigated the former head of the Vaslui County Council, Dumitru Buzatu, and for having advocated for prosecutors\u2019 more frequent use of plea agreements as a measure to reduce the backlog of cases in prosecutor’s offices.<\/p>\n
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As regards Viorel Cerbu, nominated for the position of chief prosecutor of the DNA, the justice minister says that he \u201cmasterfully combines\u201d his experience and knowledge in the field of criminal prosecution with that of judicial management and has a good capacity to capitalise on the experience acquired. With 29 years of experience in the judiciary, Viorel Cerbu has focused on the efficiency of human resources and on their professional training, as well as on the resolution of investigations within reasonable timeframes. The investigations completed by Viorel Cerbu tackled the corruption of customs officers in the northwest of the country, a case with 165 defendants, the seizing of two tonnes of cocaine in the Port of Constanta and the driving license fraud network in Pite\u015fti.<\/p>\n
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Codrin Hora\u0163iu Miron, nominated for head of DIICOT, supports the practice of plea agreements to relieve the burden on prosecutor’s offices and courts, the importance of recovering damages and regaining citizens’ trust. In nominating him, the justice minister says he essentially took into account the fact that Miron is a prosecutor with sound professional training and a remarkable academic career, whose management plans for the institution correctly identify the lines of action required to increase the operational capacity of DIICOT in fighting organised crime, in order to increase the quality and efficiency of the administration of justice. (AMP)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Romanian justice minister Radu Marinescu has made public the nominations for the leaders of key prosecutor’s offices. The head of the Ia\u0219i regional service of the National Anti-Corruption Directorate (DNA), Cristina Chiriac, has been nominated for the prosecutor general post, while Viorel Cerbu, one of the current deputy chiefs of the National […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":823064,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37738],"tags":[28992,186612,31432,34743,30123,186611],"coauthors":[115852],"class_list":["post-989277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-today-in-the-news","tag-anti-corruption","tag-anti-mafia","tag-judiciary","tag-nominations","tag-prosecutor-general","tag-prosecutors-offices"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n