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| A Late Ruling in the Voiculescu Case |
| (2011-03-11) |
| Last updated: 2011-03-14 12:52 EET |
The never-ending chain of political lawsuits investigating senator Dan Voiculescu for his alleged collaboration with the communist secret police has come to a final conclusion: Supreme Court judges have irrevocably ruled that the Conservative leader provided constant information to the Securitate under the aliases “Mircea” and “Felix”.
The Court dismissed Voiculescu’s appeal against an earlier ruling showing that Voiculescu had been recruited by the Romanian secret police from 1970 onwards, to provide information on foreign citizens. His work as an informer was temporarily put on hold, only to be resumed in order to solve some dossiers pertaining to foreign trade, a field in which Voiculescu made a fortune during communism.
Following the anti-communist revolution of 1989, Voiculescu was a continual presence in the list of wealthiest Romanians. He is the founder of Intact, currently the most influential media chain in Romania, but also of the Conservative Party. Voiculescu has been keeping a low profile, passing many of his businesses over to his family, while entrusting his party to a young group of political wannabes.
However, the party has kept to the political line established by Voiculescu: the Conservative Party has teamed up with the Liberals and the Social Democrats, making the newly formed Social-Liberal Union. Meanwhile, the ruling coalition and president Traian Basescu are under fire from his media chain.
The present-day leader of the Conservative Party, Daniel Constantin says that the party will take no statutory action against former informers of the Securitate, claiming the ruling had been ordered by the governing coalition. The reaction has stirred little surprise, given that many see the Conservatives as Voiculescu’s puppet-party.
The situation is all the more embarrassing for the National Liberal Party, a well-established anti-communist party that did not refrain from purging its own ranks of former informers a few years back, irrespective of their political prominence. One of the most vocal modern-day opponents of political informers is Liberal leader Crin Antonescu.
Mihai Voicu, the spokesperson of the Liberal Party, says that Voiculescu’s past should be of little concern to the Romanian people, adding that the Liberal-Conservative alliance is “an inter-party collation rather than an alliance between a party and one man”. Other Liberals feel Voiculescu’s case should be tackled within the Social-Liberal Union.
A relentless adversary of any alliance with Voiculescu’s faction, Liberal Ludovic Orban believes Voiculescu should step down from public life lest his personal past should encroach on the political prospects of the National Liberal Party. One thing is however certain. Following the ruling of the Supreme Court, Voiculescu is very likely to be removed as vice-president of Senate. Upon entering their term in office, MPs must make a statutory declaration that they did not collaborate with the Romanian Securitate – and Voiculescu denied any link to the former secret police.
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