Former president Traian Basescu is calling for an extraordinary way to attack the Supreme Court ruling that finally found that he collaborated with communist security.

Basescu filed a petition for review of the decision granting him the status of a former security officer. The request for review was submitted to the Bucharest Court of Appeal, Division of Administrative and Fiscal Disputes, and is due to be heard on October 21.

The final decision of the court and the conspiratorial notes that Traian Besescu would have given them

On March 23, the Supreme Court of Cassation and Justice (ICCJ) finally ruled that former president Traian Basescu cooperated with Bezpeka as a political police, testifying under the conspiratorial alias “Petrov.”

The former president reacted to the court’s decision with a brief message, saying that he would appeal to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

According to CNSAS, former President Traian Basescu would have provided intelligence notes that would have led to the detention of a Navy colleague in the country.

Documents submitted to the CNSAS court show that Basescu had a liaison officer appointed by the former Securitate, with the rank of lieutenant colonel, and that he provided two holographic information notes.

According to CNSAS, during cooperation with Security, Traian Basescu provided information exposing activities against the totalitarian communist regime, such as the intention to go abroad and relations with foreign citizens, which was contained in the information notes provided on 05.05.1975.

“Analyzing the information provided by the defendant, we understand that it is aimed at limiting the right to private life (Article 17 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights) and the right to free movement (Article 12 of the International Covenant). on Civil and Political Rights), CNSAS said.

According to the Council, as a result of one of the information notes provided by Traian Besescu to his colleague, the Security Service approved his appointment on Romanian ships that went out of the country.

How Trajan Besescu defended himself

During the trial at the Court of Appeal in Bucharest, Traian Basescu denied that he was an employee of the former Security Service. “We have completely different points of view, CNSAS and I. The third, the judge, will reconcile us,” Besescu said then.

Traian Basescu stated in the courtroom that he did not know that he would be assigned a conspiratorial name, stressing that his reports were signed “Captain Traian Basescu”.

“I did not know that I was given a conspiratorial name. I did not sign the undertaking in which the conspiratorial name was entered. (…) I did not know that Military Counterintelligence is Security. I thought it was the service of the Ministry of National Defense,” he defended himself.

“I never knew that I was given a conspiratorial name. Only when I was given two notes, Colonel Tudor told me: “Sign Petrov.” I have never been called a conspiratorial name. I didn’t know that military counterintelligence was Security. I learned about military counterintelligence connections only after the revolution. I thought it was a service under the Naval Command as it says on the frontispiece. My reports were submitted to the company, not the security service, and signed “Captain Traian Basescu”. If I was a collaborator, they should also have been signed by Petrov,” Besescu also said before the court.

He claimed that the students of the civilian faculty of the Maritime Institute are not prohibited from contacting foreign citizens, having relations with them outside of the professional framework. He recalled that in the summer, when they were students, they went to Mamai, where they met young people from Czechoslovakia.

What rights did Trajan Besescu lose after deciding to cooperate with the former security

In accordance with Law 406/2001, persons who have held the position of head of the Romanian state enjoy the following rights during their lifetime:

• a) free use of protocol housing for the purpose of living, which also includes a room with the purpose of a work office, framed by the position of an adviser and the position of a secretary;
• b) a monthly allowance equal to 75% of the allowance provided to the President of Romania in office;
• c) security and protection, as well as free use of a car, which is constantly provided by the Security and Protection Service.

According to the changes introduced in 2021 to the law granting certain rights to persons who were the heads of state of Romania, the final decision to cooperate with the former security entails the loss of all these rights granted to the rest. their lives

Therefore, according to the final decision of the court, Trajan Besescu was evicted from the protocol villa on Gogol Street and left without security.