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A request from the National Anti-Corruption Directorate (DNA) for the approval of the criminal prosecution of Senator Viorel Ilie, the minister for the relation with Parliament, reached the Senate on Monday. The Senate Standing Bureau is about to discuss this DNA request Friday at the beginning of its session.
DNA Chief Prosecutor Laura Codruţa Kovesi, filed a request with the Senate for the criminal prosecution of Minister for the Relation with Parliament Viorel Ilie for instigation to the use, in any way, directly or indirectly, of information that is not intended for public disclosure, or for allowing unauthorised access to such information while carrying out ministerial duties. "The request from the National Anti-Corruption Directorate for the conduct of a criminal investigation of Ilie Viorel regards the fact that at this moment there are aspects that give rise to a reasonable suspicion that the Ministry for the Relation with Parliament (MPR) held a contest to hire civil servants on contractual positions for indefinite time. With regards to the contest, it was revealed that it had been fixed so that some candidates preferred by the ministry's management (one very close to Minister Ilie Viorel) may get the functions to the detriment of others, making the criterion of competence totally irrelevant," said DNA.
DNA says that between July 20 and 31, Minister for the Relation with Parliament Viorel Ilie intentionally urged Felicia Elena Pop, his office manager, to ask members on the contest committee Maria Alexandrescu and Mihai Cornel Zaharia for the items and correction scales of the written examination of July 31. The same day, DNA shows, office manager Pop provided the candidates with the examination items and their solution. Apart from the fact that they had access to the competition subjects and solved them, being unfairly favoured against the other candidates, it was obvious that they had, according to their agreement, filled in the examination papers prior to the examination, so that on the day of the examination the papers that should have been filled in the exam room may be replaced by those already filled in at home by the favoured candidates.
"Moreover, according to the ministry organisational chart, not all the unfairly favoured candidates would have fulfilled the seniority requirements to hold the offices in question. In this regard, prior to the contest, Minister Viorel Ilie ordered a change in the requirements of the functions so that they may be hired," says DNA.
