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General Prosecutor's Office forwarded to the DNA the investigation on diaspora vote
The General Prosecutor's Office on Thursday forwarded to the DNA [the National Anti-corruption Directorate] the file resulted from the investigation into the manner in which the authorities organised the diaspora vote in the recent presidential elections of November 2 and 16.
'Thus, on December 4, 2014, after determining that the facts having triggered the launch of criminal investigations in this case could also make the object of Article 132 of the Law No 78/2000 on preventing, discovering and sanctioning of corruption acts, which are all norms that would require the competencies of the National Anti-corruption Directorate, the Criminal Division required that the case should be taken over by this authority,' the General Prosecutor's Office explained in a press release.
The prosecutors said that the criminal proceedings in this case were launched on November 18, 2014, having in view such crimes as abuse of office, negligence at work and obstruction of the right to vote.
The prosecutors from the General Prosecutor's Office have already obtained from the Central Electoral Bureau and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs the official data needed to document this case.
In its turn, the DNA on Thursday made an announcement that it opened its own investigation file concerning the diaspora vote.
'As to the National Anti-corruption Directorate, through our division concerned with the fight against corruption, in November this year we opened a criminal file for investigating into the manner in which the authorities organised the voting process overseas,' showed a release of the DNA on Thursday.
'Our prosecutors, after learning about the existence of a file on the same topic opened by the High Court of Cassation and Justice, on December 2, 2014, asked this institution to accept a merger of the two cases. We specify that the launch of criminal proceedings with respect to a fact is not the same with filing charges against a certain individual, but it only establishes the procedural frame for collecting the evidence with respect to that fact,' mentioned DNA.