Marius Voineag, the current head of Romania's National Anti-Corruption Directorate (DNA) and a candidate for Deputy Prosecutor General, said on Monday that some prosecution managers remain reluctant to use plea agreements because they are still "living in the mirage" of producing more indictments each year.
Asked during his interview at the Justice Ministry about the prosecutors' hesitation to use plea agreements, Voineag replied:
"There are managers in the prosecution service who still live in the mirage of having more indictments every year and operate within the margins of statistics. But the efficiency of justice is not about statistics. We can draft indictments in trivial cases, generate costs for the state and for the citizens, prolong investigations and trials, and in the end take pride only in dry numbers - more indictments, more tonnes per hectare."
He argued that young prosecutors need to be encouraged to use this legal tool more confidently.
"We must give young prosecutors more courage so they can accept that this procedural instrument - perfectly legal, a form of negotiated justice - should be used effectively," Voineag said.
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