The court judgment concerning Vasile Botnari was fully made secret, the Prosecutor General’s Office (PGO) said in response to reactions to the conviction of the former SIS director. According to the PGO, the prosecutor in charge of this case asked that the operative part of the judgment that does not contain a state secret should be declassified so that the people are informed in accordance with the law, but the court hasn’t yet responded to the request, IPN reports.
The PGO noted the sentence is a secret document that cannot be made public until the judge declassifies it. “The operative part of the sentence that does not contain a state secret was to be pronounced in a public hearing. As the judge omitted this thing, the PGO, obeying the legal norms, asked that the court verdict should be declassified so that the public could be informed,” the PGO said in a press release.
As to the objections to the prosecutor who handled this case, the PGO said it was ordered to conduct an internal inquiry so as to determine all the circumstances of this case. “There were identified a number of faults in the legal regulation of the proceedings with elements that contain a state secret. Therefore, a working group involving specialized subdivisions of the Prosecutor General’s Office was set up to draft a bill and the relevant argued note.”
The MPs of the Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS) assert the prosecutor general lied to the whole country when he said that the ex-director of the Security and Intelligence Service Vasile Botnari got a suspended sentence. According to them, Botnari was only fined in the case concerning the expulsion of the seven Turkish teachers. Also, the UNION Political Movement protested in front of the Prosecutor General’s Office against the expulsion of Turkish teachers and the formal fining of the former chief of the Security and Intelligence Service Vasile Botnari, who was found guilty of this action. Representatives of the Movement demand that the prosecutor in charge of this case and the hierarchically superior prospector soul be held accountable for conducting a formal investigation and that the judge who imposed only a fine on Vasile Botnari should resign.
