Romania's general prosecutor says justice ordinance impacts important cases

The emergency ordinance adopted by Romania’s Government on Monday morning, October 15, which brings several important changes to the justice laws, will likely impact many important cases that are currently under investigation, general prosecutor Augustin Lazar said. The ordinance says that all prosecutors who work within the military section of the High Court’s Prosecution Office, National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) and Directorate for Combatting Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) must fulfill the criteria included in the new justice laws, recently promulgated by president Klaus Iohannis, even if these conditions didn’t exist at the moment when those prosecutors were delegated to these structures. Thus, many prosecutors will be forced to leave these special prosecution units, which will also impact the important cases that they were working on, according to Augustin Lazar, local Hotnews.ro reported. Some of the cases that may be thus affected are those related to the Romanian Revolution and those related to the violent incidents during the August 10 protest in Bucharest. editor@romania-insider.com