Prosecutor General Lazar: It is very important to keep confidence in dignified justice in Romania

Keeping confidence in the Romanian justice system must be a priority for those working in the system, Prosecutor General Augustin Lazar said on Wednesday in a debate on corruption, organized by the National Anti-corruption Directorate (DNA).

"We work in an environment that is characterized by a very rapid pace of changes, by the complexity of the events that occur, and often the unpredictability of the events that occur. We need to know them, analyze and manage them in line with the law in Romania. The exchange of professional information in this context is like oxygen, because it helps each of us to better understand what we have to do and helps us to be more efficient, after we make a strategic analysis. In this context, it is very important to be able to keep the trust in a dignified justice in Romania, a justice of a European country with non-discredited institutions and a genuine equality before laws," said Lazar.

In his opinion, any initiative to amend criminal legislation should be based on impact studies.

"Now, when there is a great deal of interest in the incrimination text of the facts being well established in certain offenses, such as the abuse of office, we often say that we must have impact studies to understand what is happening and whether we should alter or not the incrimination texts," the prosecutor added.

He pointed out, regarding the abuse of office, that it usually appears linked to other offenses committed by civil servants.

"Well, the offenses of abuse of office appear most often linked to the conflict of interests, as well as the forgery, fraud, but most often the most expressive is the link between the abuse of office and the conflict of interests, which has now been resized," Augustin Lazar said.

The prosecutor general is taking part on Wednesday in the debate on "Fraud and Corruption in Public Procurement. From Combating to Prevention," organized by the DNA. AGERPRES (RO - author: George Onea, editor: Mihai Simionescu; EN - author: Bogdan Gabaroi, editor: Adina Panaitescu)

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