The Supreme Council of Magistrates on July 15 rejected the request of Prosecutor General Corneliu Gurin to allow investigating and trying a judge of the Centru Court for passing an illegal judgment. Thus, the judge will be investigated only disciplinarily, IPN reports.

According to a communiqué of the Prosecutor General’s Office, the prosecutor general’s request is based on the fact that on May 17, the judge rejected the application to extend the arrest warrant against a person investigated in the case concerning the State Main Tax Inspectorate. He ordered placing him under house arrest and setting him free from the courtroom. Afterward, the accused ran away and was put on the wanted list. The judge took such a decision at a time when another person involved in the same case also escaped from house arrest and disappeared.

The prosecutors reached the conclusion that the decision passed by the judge, by which the accused was freed from arrest, is illegal and groundless as it was a serious case of corruption and there were reasons to extend the arrest warrant.

The Prosecutor General’s Office says the number of cases when judges do not impose appropriate preventive measures, despite the legal arguments provided by prosecutors, has increased lately.