Daniel Horodniceanu

The Justice Ministry (MJ) has announced that 11 bids have been filed for vacant management positions at the Attorney General's Office (PICCJ), the National Anti-Corruption Directorate (DNA) and the Directorate for the Investigating Organised Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT).

Daniel Horodniceanu, Catalin-Laurentiu Borcoman and Claudiu Dumitrescu are the three candidates shortlisted by the Romanian Ministry of Justice (MJ) for the office of European prosecutor.

A panel headed by Justice Minister Ana Birchall on Tuesday started interviews with Romanian candidates vying for the office of the European prosecutor. In the beginning of the meeting, streamed live on the website of the justice minister, the withdrawal of two candidates, Razvan Horatiu Radu and Nicoleta Nolden, was announced.

The Acting Justice minister Ana Birchall on Tuesday announced in a press conference she postponed the selection procedure of the Prosecutor General of Romania and of the Deputy of the national member for Eurojust.

Daniel Horodniceanu, former chief prosecutor of the Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT), argues that the selection procedure of the prosecutor general initiated by the Ministry of Justice did not indicate a candidate profile or the benchmarks that those interested had to meet and considers that "without specific requirements and without a candidate profile, any

The Justice Ministry is to resume the selection procedure for bids to the position of Romania's attorney general, Justice Minister Tudorel Toader confirmed to AGERPRES on Wednesday. The decision was made after the selection board chaired by Toader rejected the four candidates who had filed bids: Augustin Lazar, Marian Drilea, Gabriela Scutea and Daniel Horodniceanu.

CIADO (The International Anti-Drug and Human Rights Center) has requested the Government and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, on Friday, to sack the leadership of ANA (National Anti-Drug Agency) for "dire managerial deficits" and reorganize the institution, as well as adopt the 2017-2020 Action Plan through a Government Decision, allocating 5 percent from the vice tax for programs that concern

Romania's Attorney General Augustin Lazar had a meeting with visiting State Minister for European Affairs of the German Federal Foreign Office Michael Roth, who voiced concern over recent amendments to Romania's criminal legislation.

Chief prosecutor of the Directorate for Investigating of Organised Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) Daniel Horodniceanu believes that by its latest ruling, the Constitutional Court of Romania (CCR) actually placed the prosecutors not under the authority, but under the discretionary power of the minister of justice, who is either a politician or enjoys political support.

Romanian and German police and organised crime prosecutors moved on Wednesday in a simultaneous operation to search scores of locations in both countries, to dismantle a refugee trafficking network whose hub was in Timisoara, western Romania.