The government is desperate to block the corruption-fighter and potential EU prosecutor
ROMANIAN POLITICS is, by and large, sordid and corrupt. Party barons distribute jobs and public contracts. Oligarchs who own television stations use them as propaganda machines to destroy their opponents’ reputations, or to get cronies elected. Honest politicians such as Klaus Iohannis, the president, and those in the reform-minded Save Romania Union party are in the minority.
It appears to be an absurd stitch-up. Ms Kovesi’s alleged misconduct consists of getting the supposedly wrong government ministry to pay for repatriating a fugitive suspect arrested in Indonesia eight years ago, when she was Romania’s chief prosecutor. Last year the government used dubious charges of prosecutorial bias to push Ms Kovesi out as head of the DNA. Now it is apparently trying to stop her from winning the job in Brussels.
The prospect of Ms Kovesi as chief EU prosecutor is anathema to grifters in Romania’s government. Until now, the European Commission’s fraud investigation division, known as OLAF, has lacked the power to bring cases. When it finds evidence that a country’s officials are misappropriating some of the billions of euros’ worth of aid the EU distributes each year, it can do nothing but hand the dossier to national authorities and politely request that they take action.
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