Wednesday's evening Daily Summary show began with the case file of torturer Vişinescu. Mihai Gadea admitted he found hope in this story, for, behold, after decades, the culprits are held accountable for what they did.
"A man who has significantly contributed to the death of some people. A warden who would do anything for the regime he served. I watched today the images of old criminal Vişinescu being taken to the car. You know what I found shocking? That I was sorry for him. A 90-year old is taken and dragged to the car.
"But there is something hopeful in this story.It may take decades for one to be held accountable for what he did. They were young men who believed in their political ideals, who loved thewir country, one named Corneliu, another Ion. Vişinescu had the wand with which he was taking lives.
The good news in all this matter is that someone who has abused power, after decades is held accountable.
We are trying daily to strengthen our democracy. We have such a thirst for justice like we have not experience for generations, for a real functioning democracy, like the American concept of check and balances, trying to put things in balance. How much we want our democracy to be strengthened?
I think that everything freemen are trying, observing the law, observing democratic principles, is welcome. Today I followed a study by a US think tank, that the Russians would want to create chaos in Romania.
Another think tank in Britain, in 2014 said that the Russian secret services use people in Romania, some Hungarian leaders to spread their messages. Because the Romanian society is a healthy one, I think that when you have revelations about what has happened in the last 26 years, you have to show them to the public opinion, because the thirst for justice is huge in every one of us. "
BIG BUSSINESS DEALS MAP. PLACES WHERE THE BRIBES ARE SET
Mihai Gâdea showed then a map of the premises in which they did shady bussiness deals that have empovered the Romanians, because of which each citizen has suffered directly or indirectly.
BAGS OF MONEY TRAIL, THE BRIBES CASHED IN BY THE MOB
The revelations series continued with the path of the bags with money.
"We start with revelations about bags with money which turn from theft into bribery, into propaganda. There is evidence, documents, clear things. Look for the bags of money trail during the mafia regime. "
Oana Stancu Zamfir, producer of the show Excess power, explained in the context of the disclosures related to the daily Evenimentul Zilei that Traian Basescu had a problem with the idea of the press long before becoming the head of state.
Traian Basescu had been having the press obsession long beforehe became the president. I was working at the National Journal, doing the the first investigations on Traian Basescu, because the press used to spoil him, he used to go into the dailies newsrooms with whiskey bottles and shared it around with the people in the newsroom.
In 2001 I made the inquiry related to asphalt kings, how the streets of Bucharest got repaired, how various indivuduals had seized these contracts, how they were divided like some special meal. Basescu had this problem all along, you or either instructed by Nastase , or by Voiculescu. And it was clear that he was not going to understand that there was press in Romania. And in 2005, any newspaper coming up with revelations was regarded as a problem.
THE LARGEST EARTHQUAKE ON PUBLIC STAGE IN ROMANIA
While serving as a judge in the ICA file, Judge Camelia Bogdan received 10,000 lei from the Ministry of Agriculture, the injured party in the ICA file and spent a two-week stay in Poiana Brasov in a program financed by the same Ministry. A few days after returning from the stay, Judge Bogdan gave a final judgment in favor of the Ministry of Agriculture.
On the 26th of June 2014, the Court of Appeal's leadership has appointed judges Camelia Bogdan and Alexandru Mihalcea to rule in the ICA file. The two had not judged any other cases for the Court of Appeal, they were fresh graduate to this court.
The first appearance before the court in the trial judged by Camelia Bogdan and Alexandru Mihalcea for the ICA file was on July 1, 2014. On July 7th, for the second appearance, the judges have announced that they would take a leave until August 4th, when a new term was set.
The Political Investigations Group published documents showing that Judge Camelia Bogdan spent half of this holiday in Poiana Brasov in a program financed by one of the parties in the ICA file.
Moreover, judge Bogdan has also received 10.000 lei from the respective party.
In other words, judge Camelia Bogdan took money from the Ministry of Agriculture, “the harmed party” in the ICA case file .
Mugur Ciuvică explained briefly, the investigation at hand : (VIDEO )
"It is an important discovery, but it is from public sources. The declaration of assets was signed by Ms Bogdan in June 2015. We, from time to time, we ckeck the declaration of assets . I saw this being mentioned, that she took money . We knew that was wrong, for a judge, to take money. It’s incompatibility. Except for the teaching staff, which is not the case here. So it was illegal.
And we looked at that company and while we were looking there, we understood. That her consulting firm was in the program with the Ministry of Agriculture. We corroborated that with the information in her CV. I think she is dromomaniac.
I think she attended dozens of seminaries in the country, abroad. She has not cashed in any money from those trips. And she would teach things, but did not get money, at least in 2014, as we checked, only in this seminar organized by the Ministry of Agriculture. This is how our small but consistent investigation was conducted. "
"We thought somehow in favor of Ms Bogdan, too. And my colleagues, the hearted kind, they said maybe there was an explanation. Possibly to say she did not know where the money came from. All those seminars where she's been, where she was speaking, she spoke and wrote in her resume that she specialised in money laundering and uncovering hiddent money.
She cannot to say that she spent two weeks in a hotel, with 260 employees of the Ministry of Agriculture, participating in a program organized by the Ministry of Agriculture, without knowing what it was. So that did not work, "added Mugur Ciuvică.
Mihai Gâdea: Prosecutor Eva a was proved to be corrupt, with papers, not by us.
Another aspect of the ICA file is the indictment prepared by the prosecutor Eva Emilian, a character proved to be corrupt.
"The prosecutor Eva is proven to be a punk, a corrupt, an asshole. And he was proven by prosecutors, not by us. The magistrates of DNA investigated that on their own and presented some extremely serious corruption activities. Even before this trial.
So we have a prosecutor on the case, who shall prepare the indictment and who is proven to be corrupt, long before drawing up this case file. Can I tell you to trust any magistrate in Romania?
Our confidence must be based on facts, evidence and like a big opponent of ours said , "It took a mega-corrupt prosecutor to condemn Dan Voiculescu?" said Mihai Gadea.
Teodor Atanasiu: A re-assessment of the Telepathy case file would be normal
Liberal Teodor Atanasiu agreed that the evidence is obvious and, most likely, an investigation will follow and, why not, the revision of the Telepathy case.
"The submitted documents clearly show that it is a conflict of interest, me I am not surprised that she did not refrain, to let someone else decide.
The conflict once discovered, I suspect there will be an inquiry by the Judicial Inspection and probably after this, there follows a review of the trial, because that would be the normal end. I'm not a lawyer, I do not know if these things are normal, but clearly it's a conflict of interest concerned. Those who must clear things up are the Ministry’s Judicial Inspection and I am curious how quickly they move in this direction. "
Mihai Gâdea: How to do justice, you are essentially bad?
"However, when you ruled the sentence and sent some people to jail and showed off on TV, did you not think that you took money from the Ministry of Agriculture. It's about stuff that simple. I took money from one party in the trial.
At least call for for recusal. What is this? Eva, God forbid, I do not want to conduct any trial. I look at the people who make justice in the courtroom, I see robed judges, they must interrogate, to hear the parties, examine, there are people whose goodness you see in the way they do justice. There are people that even if they have to condemn someone, you can see their concern for justice, for truth.
I am terrified when I see people who say they do justice and you van seen their meaness on their faces and their contorted faces. Justice, truth, law are some issues in a positive area of our world. How to perform justice, you are essentially evil, harmful?
When you look at Eva, you see the recording with Eva who not only is mean or harmful, he says "babe, do you know how many case files you have here?" And it for a second, you think of Vişinescu. How unfair it is for the thousands of prosecutors who are honest? They go and wear the robe knowing that they have a special mission ", concluded Mihai Gadea.