It will be responsible for preventing conflicts of interest

A former Prime Minister, the Deputy Prime Minister of the ruling coalition and the Minister of telecommunications and one, who has just resigned, for the economy, eight members of Parliament, nine judges, 50 Customs officers and police officers, many business leaders, all the directors of the regional electricity distribution companies... It is a real Who's who Romanian politics and affairs which is now charged for acts of corruption. An earlier plague, in fact, in the fall of Ceausescu, when the nomenklatura and Securitate (political police) were looting the country and that people were forced to play their relations and gifts for jobs, apartments, care, diplomas. Where complacency generalized to this "technique of survival", has not pushed governments really concern itself with the fight against corruption at the transition.

A more independent justice

Bucharest but suddenly awake a year ago, feeling the wind of the ball after the publication of the report of the European Commission, who said bluntly that the accession of the countries on 1 January was threatened. The new liberal President, Traian Basescu, has called for the Department of Justice counsel are not cold with eyes, Monica Macovei, with training to strengthen the Prosecutor's Office national anti-corruption, established three years earlier on the model of the famous Italian prosecution service but which had virtually never caught on "big fish". Since then, showing that nobody is untouchable, fish frétillent many in the public prosecutor's Office became the Department nets national anti-corruption (DNA), the very powers to spin, search, listen. In addition to the preparation of a new Code of civil procedure and criminal procedure, Monica Macovei has also installed a superior Council of the judiciary, where judges elected by their peers provide career independence and therefore a healthy distance from political power. And the senior officials and political leaders are obliged to publish in detail the origin of their heritage. What has earned "Tatie Tamara" become the most famous woman of Romania when Adrian Nastase, social democratic Prime Minister until the fall of 2005, invoked a legacy cash of this nonagénaire residing in a small studio.

No party spared

Adrian Nastase, charged, shouted to the political machination, as all high-ranking officials, but Daniel Morar, head of the DNA, "echos" explains: "We have customers in all political parties", such as Dinu Patriciu, Rompetrol pattern, number two national of oil, a relative of Prime Minister Calin Tariceanu, charged a year ago in a case of privatization. Actually, the Democratic Party to the Liberal Party from the social democratic party or the Party of the Hungarian minority, no one is spared. DNA sent justice 110 records on the 10,000 investigations, said Daniel Morar, however fairly low proportion to deny claims that the Department must "make sales" at the expense of guarantees of civil liberties. But if more and more large fish are finally concern, for the moment the acquittals are many, sometimes because of poorly crafted investigation; No figure leading sleeps currently in prison.

At the same time, Romanians founded some hope on the implementation in a few months of an institution without equal in Europe, a national integrity Agency. It will be responsible for preventing conflicts of interest. A law prohibited well since six years the elected members of the Board of Directors of public companies, but it is bypassed by the use of purely fictious.