Former Minister of Justice Stelian Ion (USR) sounds the alarm on his Facebook page, claiming that judges who publicly opposed Dragni’s laws and Preda’s proposals, prosecutors and judges who investigated political leaders and handed down sentences against political corruption are not no longer have supporters in the government or in Kotrochen.

“They have been left alone and the pressure on them continues,” charges Stelian Ion, who claims that DNA’s chief prosecutor “does easily without professional prosecutors.”

Examples provided by Stelian Ion:

• At the end of February, DNA Constanța prosecutors resigned in protest against Marius Vojniag’s decision to appoint a “prosecutor with no anti-corruption experience” to lead the DNA territorial service. The prosecutors who brought Rada Mazere and Nicushor Constantinescu to trial, for example, and who protested the massacre of justice laws in the Dragnea era, left DNA Constanța.
• The same thing happened in Bacau, in Timisoara.
• Judge Daniela Panioglu, who was expelled from the judicial system 4 times by the CSM “for absurd reasons” and won each time at the ÎCCJ, being reinstated, was expelled again “by this abusive CSM. The fifth time!”
• 23 prosecutors from the Prosecutor’s Office at the Court of Appeal in Bucharest were forced to go to court to challenge the PICCJ Prosecutor General’s actions, which they said could affect their investigations.
• Judges who have been sanctioned and removed from the judiciary, such as Kamelia Bohdan, are still being harassed while waiting for justice to be served.

“This is a real persecution in justice, where the victims are courageous and successful judges, especially in the fight against corruption. PSD and PNL don’t want prosecutorial investigations to reach their party members and their political friends, they don’t want judges to issue guilty verdicts in cases against politicians or take into account decisions of the Court of Justice of the European Union. What I said would happen through the passing of Johannis-Preda’s version of equity laws is true. It will take us many years to fix what these individuals are destroying in the “stable” PSD-PNL government,” says the former minister.

And Christian Danilets blames the current CSM: “more offensive than the old CSM”

Former magistrate Kristian Danilec, who recently resigned after numerous suspensions and disputes with the CSM, accuses the institution of being more abusive than in the past and of improving its methods of intimidating inappropriate magistrates. “The current CSM (2023-present) is more violent than the former CSM (2017-2023),” Danilets says on his Facebook page.

“The new CSM acts more treacherously: it conducts investigations and imposes sanctions on judges for given decisions, which is unacceptable. Daniela Panioglu of the Bucharest Court of Appeal has been expelled from the judiciary for the fifth time in a year. She’s won four times in the Supreme Court so far, so that’s how many times the inspectors in each case and the current CSM members who voted against her (8 out of 9) have abused their position. Until she won the courts, she was removed from office. She returned to the Bucharest Court of Appeal, only to find that her position in the criminal section had been taken by someone else, who had meanwhile been promoted to that section. She was transferred to another department – we say that when you are abused by your superiors for a position for which you have no training, that you are sent to engage in “intellectual prostitution.” Some people cannot stand this humiliation, he says.

Now the judge has again come under the sanctions of the Central Committee of the Central Committee: the same 8 deputies who violated the law four times in her case voted for her removal again.

“And if she was guilty, no panel in their right mind would have voted first for the most severe of the 6 possible legal sanctions, given that her past is ‘clean’ as previous sanctions have been expunged,” the former magistrate charges.

Former judge Christi Danilec won the case against Romania at the ECtHR. CSM imposed sanctions on Danylets for the post on Facebook.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) condemned Romania for violating the freedom of expression of former judge Cristi Danilec. The decision, published on Tuesday, comes in the context of Danylets being sanctioned by the Higher Council of Magistracy (CSM) three years ago for posting on Facebook.

Three court cases won by Danilec with CSM

In April 2023, Christi Danilec won in the High Court of Cassation and Justice CSM’s third trial against his expulsion from the magistracy and returned to the position of judge in the court of Cluj. According to this decision, Danilets was supposed to receive the owed salary from December 2021, that is, the date when he was removed from office.

Previously, Danylets won two more lawsuits with CSM, which had the same goal – removal from the judges. Thus, in February 2023, the Supreme Court annulled the decision of the Supreme Court of Ukraine from May 2022, by which Danilts was excluded from judicial power due to the fact that he carried out political activities through two public organizations.

In particular, Danilets was sanctioned because he was a member of two non-governmental organizations that published critical communiques against the government.

Christy Danilec was also expelled from the CSM Master’s in December 2021 for the manifestations he allegedly had on several social networks. It is about two posts on the TikTok social network, which, according to Danilets, are not about justice, but about private life.

And in this case, Danilets challenged the CSM’s decision in court, winning the case. The members of the CCM who expelled Danilec from the magistracy have meanwhile completed their mandate, and the head of the judicial inspection, the institution that drew up the sanctions protocols, has also left the system.