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| Media Headlines 26/11/2010 |
| (2010-11-26) |
| Last updated: 2010-11-29 13:08 EET |
Investigations following scandalous sackings at the top levels of the Romanian Ministry of the Interior have brought to light some unflattering goings on in the police force. Alarmed, the daily Romania Libera headlines “Disaster. The Ministry of the Interior’s report on commissioner Aurelian Soric uncovers cooperation between the police and criminals”.
Soric, former head of the Neamt County Police, gained notoriety after his public reaction to the assassination of a local crime lord, when he expressed discontent with the idea that this label should be placed on a loan-shark. From Soric’s shocking statements, the scandal grew, costing both chief of police Petre Toba and state secretary Dan Fatuloiu their respective jobs.
The newspaper Romania Libera found out what Soric is being accused of. Under his leadership, the Neamt County Police allegedly exhibited little interest in fighting local criminal groups found guilty or suspected of loan-sharking, blackmail, protection racketing, as well as drug, weapons and human trafficking. The assassination victim was in fact a member of one of the local clans. The result of investigations is grim: the Neamt County Police did not look after the protection of citizens, but rather the protection of criminal organizations and their businesses.
The daily Evenimentul Zilei notes that “more than 2,200 criminal files, some of them including serious offences, were filed under ‘unknown perpetrator’ or hidden away in the desks of policemen under Aurelian Soric’s leadership.” The former commissioner is accused of sullying the image of the Ministry of the Interior, the Romanian Police and the Prosecutors’ Office.
One explanation for the dubious relations between certain police officers and criminal clans could be found, the publication Adevarul believes, with the Ministry of the Interior’s department in charge of gathering intelligence from criminal bodies, which often recruits insiders from these environments. The informers, Adevarul writes, do not work with the police from a sense of civic duty, but rather to obtain protection for their own criminal activities. Hence a gray area is formed, where law and crime converge and use one another.
The daily also writes about the alleged attempt to bribe former state secretary Dan Fatuloiu. Businessman Catalin Chelu, placed under temporary arrest after he made a confession, is suspected of trying to bribe Fatuloiu to file certain criminal cases as closed. He has also made some surprising statements. He said that the former state secretary had wanted to blackmail him, insistently asking for money. Police officers like Soric, and these alleged underworld dealings, have the effect of lowering Romanians’ faith in the moral integrity of those paid to serve and protect them.
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