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Judge about Dr Burnei: Prosecutors did not prove accusations of malpraxis and experiments on children
A judge from Bucharest Court says prosecutors from Bucharest Prosecution did not prove several accusations against physician Gheorghe Brunei from “Marie Curie” hospital of malpraxis, experiments on children and use of devices which had not been homologated.
They judge also said that Brunei confessed to ten times when he accepted bribery but the prosecutors did not have evidence for other five cases of corruption. Even more, recordings show that the doctor “accepted money from patients with difficulty”.
On December 11, a judge from Bucharest Court denied the prosecutors’ request of Dr Brunei’s preventive arrest. Brunei is in home arrest now. On Tuesday, Bucharest Court of Appeal decided to revoke home arrest and place the physician under judicial control.
The prosecutors’ report sent to court shows there is evidence of crimes against life and health committed by Gheorghe Brunei against children whose precarious health was aggravated by Brunei in his intentional actions.
The judge says prosecutors did not prove their accusations of malpraxis against the doctor, the experimental character of some of his operations and the use of devices which had not been homologated.
“The Physicians’ College, INML and the Bioethics Commission will make a serious investigation confirming or denying the allegations, but now they cannot be taken into consideration by the court, as they do not materialise in explicit penal accusations against the defendant,” the court wrote.
The judge considers that Brunei’s actions of corruption were not elaborate or special compared to other cases and it should betaken into account that he is “a well known personality in the field of medicine, with many successful operations, some of them world firsts and he had an important activity in medical higher education, being both MD and reputed university professor.”