Top Judicial Watchdog Rejects Request For Arrest Of Controversial Ploiesti Prosecutors

The Prosecutors’ Section of Romania’s top judicial watchdog CSM decided on Monday to reject a request for the arrest of Ploiesti anticorruption prosecutors Lucian Onea and Mircea Negulescu, who are currently investigated under the suspicion of forging evidence for their cases.

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The request was filed earlier in the day by prosecutor Adina Florea from the General Prosecutor’s Office’s Section for Investigating Judicial Crimes (SIIJ).

The two prosecutors, from the National Anticorruption Directorate’s (DNA) Ploiesti branch, are accused of forging evidence and threatening witnesses in their cases. SIIJ decided on Friday, however, to extend the accusations in the case, with the entire DNA Ploiesti structure to be investigated under the suspicion of setting up an organized crime group, according to judicial sources.

Lucian Onea and Mircea Negulescu were questioned by SIIJ prosecutors on Friday, after other DNA Ploiesti prosecutor were similarly brought before the section on Thursday.

Former MP Vlad Cosma accused in early 2018 that the two coerced him into filing a denouncement against a fictitious Moldovan citizen, and also made him forge a list allegedly showing Moldovan voters who had received electoral bribes. He said that the two prosecutors coerced him to commit the offence by threatening to launch a criminal case against his sister, current social-democrat MP Andreea Cosma.

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