| Scandal at the top of the Romanian Police 18/11/2010 |
| (2010-11-18) |
| Last updated: 2010-11-19 14:01 EET |
An Interior Ministry team is looking into the situation in Piatra Neamt following accusations that the head of the county police, the chief commissioner Aurelian Soric, allegedly fraternised with the criminal world, an accusation which Soric denied.
At the same time, a team of the Interior Ministry Control Corps verifies the activity of the heads of the Neamt police and how the situation was managed after the assassination.
The investigators, headed by Aurel Vladulescu, have one week to draw up a report based on which the interior minister Traian Igas is to make a decision. Aurel Vladulescu: “We will look at the managerial activity. Emphasis will also be laid on the groups of organised crime here, their surveillance and the relationship with the Prosecutor’s Office. There are many activities we need to look into.”
Invoking bad management, the state secretary Dan Valentin Fatuloiu requested replacement of Aurelian Soric and the head of the Romanian police, Petre Toba.
Soric says, however, that his replacement is requested for entirely different reasons:“I think my possible replacement has nothing do with this case, but is part of Mr Fatuloiu’s project aimed at the restructuring of the Interior Ministry, and, implicitly, the Romanian Police.”
“Ruthless war at the top of the police”, headlines the daily paper Evenimentul Zilei, according to which the conflict between Fatuloiu and Toba dates back some time ago and is a matter of egos, as well as Fatuloiu’s wish to control the institution run today by the man he always saw as his rival. “The policemen’s rally on the 24th of September seems to have provided the ideal pretext for beheadings in the police, the gendarmerie and the interior ministry”, writes the newspaper Jurnalul National.
The paper recalls that as a result of the protest staged by the police forces in front of the government’s and president’s offices, Vasile Blaga was sacked from his position as interior minister and replaced by Traian Igas, who is known as a “disciplined soldier”, while the investigation report on the aforementioned protest “got lost in the fever of replacements.”
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