The head of Government says that the people in president Traian Băsescu’s entourage are responsible for that and nominated the democrat liberals Adrian Papahagi, from the Christian Democrat Foundation , a supporter of Monica Macovei in the internal elections of PDL, and Mihai Neamţu, the leader of the New Republic, according to Gandul.
"Mr. President’s losers Papahagi and Neamţu are filing criminal complaints against me. I have gotten used to it. That’s how I cohabit with the president", Ponta commented, when asked today if he had knowledge of the prosecutor’s investigation in the case of his paperwork " Responsibility under the international humanitarian law ", signed by Victor Ponta and Daniela Coman.
The statement of the head of Government comes after the Prosecutor's Office attached to ICCJ asked yesterday the Romanian Copyright Office (ORDA) for an expertise of the book published by Prime Minister Victor Ponta and which is accused of plagiarism
The book largely resumes the Prime Minister’s PhD thesis, " The International Criminal Court", on which, last year, the journal Nature called the attention on plagiarism.
According to the complaint filed by Mihail Neamţu, Adrian Papahagi and Augustin Ofiţeru in August 2012, Ponta had copied 113 pages out of the 292 of the paper "Responsibility Under the International Humanitarian Law," published in 2010 by the Universul Juridic Publishing.
After completion of the ORDA expertise, the case prosecutor may start criminal investigation and ultimately may send the case to trial if there is evidence to support the accusation.
According to the law, the offense is punishable by imprisonment from 3 months to 5 years or a fine from 25,000,000 lei to 500,000,000 lei, for people who appropriate without right the capacity of author of a work or act of a person or who brings a work to the public knowledge under a name other than the one decided by the author.
If in the Prime Minister’s PhD thesis case the Ministry of Education definitively decided that Victor Ponta did not plagiarize, although the University of Bucharest and the National Council for the Certification of Titles, Diplomas and Certificates had presented consistent evidence showing whole passages taken without quotation marks.
The Ministry took into account only the conclusions of the National Commission of Ethics under its subordination , which found last year that Ponta’s paperwork did not contain elements of plagiarism. Therefore Ponta keeps his Ph.D. title.
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