Debate "Corruption in the public healthcare system - analysis of the DNA cases solved in court, through final conviction orders, over 2015-2017"

General prosecutor of Romania, Augustin Lazar, on Tuesday stated that anybody can see the "exasperating succession" of bribery crimes, with investigators too having been terrified to discover that people took bribes like "they were breathing."

"We can notice the exasperating succession of bribery crimes. We too were terrified to discover that, in relation to this or that file, people took bribes, millions or tens of millions, like they were breathing. But how did they do it? Not just anyhow, but of a systematic manner, which says something," stated Lazar, during a debate called "Corruption in the public healthcare system - analysis of the DNA cases solved in court, through final conviction orders, over 2015-2017."

He said that this is a very relevant and interesting research, not just for the prosecutors, but also for the society, for during this process of implementation of the National Anti-corruption Strategy, there must also appear the results of the law enforcement bodies' actions.

"We must see in the mirror this important domain of our society, which is the public healthcare system. (...) We must see what it shows us, what we can see right there in the mirror, to say so. Basically, we should see the composite sketch of the individuals who commit such acts and we should see the cultural matrix that is passed - as it seems - from generation to generation. I do not feel at ease when I say this, for I have always said: corruption is not a phenomenon, and no other crime is, specific only to Romania," Lazar said.

He underscored that Romania did not contribute anything new when it comes to crimes.

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