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Romanian Emergency Chief Claims Case Built on Fabricated Premises, Alleges Abusive Surveillance
๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ด Romania /Disasters & Emergencies

Romanian Emergency Chief Claims Case Built on Fabricated Premises, Alleges Abusive Surveillance

From Adevฤƒrul · () Romanian

Translated from Romanian, summarized and contextualized by DistantNews.

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  • Raed Arafat, head of Romania's Department for Emergency Situations (DSU), claims a criminal case against the department was built on fabricated premises.
  • Arafat alleges prosecutors abusively used intrusive surveillance measures, including GPS tracking and audio-video recordings, for nearly six months.
  • He asserts that official checks revealed issues with how the case was opened and investigated, suggesting the prosecutor lacked jurisdiction.

Raed Arafat, the head of Romania's Department for Emergency Situations (DSU), has publicly contested the investigation into alleged fictitious hires within his department. In a video message, Arafat stated that the case, which targets four doctors and a nurse suspected of being paid for unfulfilled duties, was initiated and handled improperly.

In the context of the criminal case regarding the alleged fictitious hires at DSU, I find myself compelled to publicly share a series of highly serious pieces of information, recently discovered through official checks regarding the creation and handling of this case.

โ€” Raed ArafatArafat's statement regarding the investigation into his department.

Arafat claims that he and others involved were subjected to intrusive surveillance for nearly six months. These measures reportedly included GPS tracking, photography, and audio-video recordings. He further alleges that the prosecutor then obtained mobile phones from 13 individuals, using information not initially approved by the court.

These checks confirmed that the prosecutor artificially assumed jurisdiction in the case, by invoking a fabricated factual circumstance. This finding dismantles the foundation upon which the entire case was built and reveals a method of conducting the criminal investigation incompatible with legal requirements.

โ€” Raed ArafatArafat's explanation of the alleged procedural flaws in the investigation.

According to Arafat, the investigation proceeded for over a year without informing the targeted individuals or allowing them to exercise their legal rights. He asserts that the prosecutor artificially established jurisdiction by citing fabricated circumstances, which he believes invalidates the entire case. Arafat also stated that the DSU provided investigators with approximately 20,000 pages of documents and 8,000 files to demonstrate the employees' activities.

Based on these artificial premises, the prosecutor conducted the investigation in rem for over a year without informing the targeted individuals and without them being able to exercise their procedural rights.

โ€” Raed ArafatArafat's description of the alleged lack of due process.
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Originally published by Adevฤƒrul in Romanian. Translated, summarized, and contextualized by our editorial team with added local perspective. Read our editorial standards.

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