Former prosecutor Liviu Mihai Tudose, former deputy general prosecutor of the Prosecutor’s Office attached to the Ploiesti Court of Appeal, was in Parliament on Thursday, in the Legal Commission of the Chamber of Deputies, where the draft law abolishing the Section for Investigating Criminal Crimes was debated. The former magistrate opposes the abolition of the SIIJ, a maneuver which, in his opinion, has only the role of blocking the prosecution of prosecutors who have committed abuses in recent years. Tudose is himself a victim of DNA Ploieşti abuses, being arrested, suspended from office, discredited, in order to be finally acquitted.
- Context: Liviu Mihai Tudose was suspended from office after being sent to trial by DNA Ploieşti, through an indictment confirmed by Lucian Onea. On June 14, 2018, Liviu Tudose was acquitted in the first instance by the High Court of Cassation and Justice, in the case in which the former deputy Sebastian Ghiţă was also tried. In June 2018, the decision remained final at the HCCJ. In October 2018, he was reinstated. In March 2019, Tudose filed a criminal complaint against prosecutors Lucian Onea and Laura Codruţa Kovesi. In December 2019, Tudose retired.
“I find myself having to go out again in the public space to give some clarifications about my presence today, at the meeting of the Committee on Legal Affairs, Discipline and Immunities in which the project to abolish the Section for the Investigation of Crimes in Justice was debated.
I had the quality of guest and I identified the purpose of my presence to be, once again, to bring to the attention of this commission the unimaginable abuses to which I, in particular, but also other magistrates have been subjected, over the past years, by DNA prosecutors.
Because only a part of what happened today was taken over in the press, respectively only the fact that I was not allowed to speak, which is partially true, the following clarifications are required:
After the efficient, vertical and extremely professional intervention, as we are accustomed to, of the representatives of the professional associations UNJR, AMR, AJADO and APR, I joined the floor, motivated even more by the unreal statement of the President of the Commission, the deputy Usr- Plus Badea Mihai Alexandru, in the sense that “the abuses were isolated cases”.
In this context, the Minister of Justice, Ion Stelian, raised the issue of my quality and the fact that it would not be in accordance with the Rules of Procedure to speak, and I can only attend the debates.
I replied that I fully justify my quality, as a former magistrate, now retired, but also a defendant, “thanks” to the abuses of DNA prosecutors.
I also asked the Minister if he would not let me speak for fear of what I might say. Obviously, he didn’t answer.
After the intervention of other members of the commission, I was allowed to speak, but I was asked not to report anything about my concrete case, but about the abolition of the SIIJ.
I replied then that I would not be able to dissociate between the two aspects, because I came to speak from the perspective of my own experience, and the role of my presence is to fight by any means so that these abominations do not happen again in the future.
Taking advantage of the context in which I was allowed, however, to speak, in a real “race against the clock”, I tried to say how much of what I had set out to do, being aware that my microphone would be cut off, because that is the way in which, in Romania in 2021, the fundamental right to freedom of speech is respected.
I talked about the incalculable way in which my criminal case was made, about the abominable abuses, about the violation of the most basic procedural rights, about the fabricated evidence, about the way prosecutors violate the procedure, under the “umbrella” of illegal circulars and from the top of the DNA structure, about the conditions of the arrest and torture I was subjected to.
All this time, the Vice President of the Commission, also from USR, was trying to divert my speech from the concrete aspects regarding my file.
I also said that the sole purpose of abolishing the SIIJ is to try to cover up the misery and abuse committed and to avoid prosecuting the guilty.
When I tried to provide even more details and concrete references to the illegalities of which I was a victim, my microphone was cut off, in a desperate attempt not to be heard even more by the media representatives in the room.
This is not the context in which to talk about the incalculable level of dialogue, cons and non-arguments around which there is a discussion in such a commission that should be a “filter” of legality and constitutionality.
I conclude by conveying to the parliamentarians that, although today they stopped my speech in this almost childish way, they will not be able to shut my mouth, nor erase my painful memories, nor stop me from thinking.
And that’s because, in all these years, my only guilty act was to be silent, while too few spoke. Because I thought, like many of you, that “it can’t happen to me” … “, Liviu Mihai Tudose writes on Facebook.
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