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Giorgiana Hosu, DIICOT’s chief prosecutor, announced her resignation Thursday. The decision comes after her husband was sentenced in the first instance to three years in prison with suspension. Giorgiana Hosu is the third head of the anti-mafia prosecutor’s office to resign in the last five years.
A statement from the Ministry of Justice reports that Minister Cătălin Predoiu had a meeting on Thursday with Giorgiana Hosu, and she informed him of her decision to resign. “The resignation of the DIICOT chief prosecutor was motivated by concern to protect the credibility of the institution and was based on a context with which he had no connection and for causes that are not attributable to him,” says the Ministry of Justice.
DIICOT will continue to be managed by DIICOT’s Deputy Attorney General, Oana Daniela Pâțu.
Former police officer Dan Hosu, husband of DIICOT chief Giorgiana Hosu, was sentenced this Thursday to three years in prison with suspension, for committing crimes of instigating illegal access to a computer system and instigating the use of information not intended for advertising . The sentence is not final, but President Klaus Iohannis had declared the day before that “if a conviction occurs, it certainly will not go unnoticed.”
Giorgiana Hosu had been appointed in February
On February 20, President Klaus Iohannis signed the decrees appointing the chief prosecutors proposed by the Minister of Justice, including Giorgiana Hosu, although the Superior Council of the Magistracy had approved Giorgiana Hosu’s proposal for the position of Chief Prosecutor of the DIICOT. However, the opinion of the SCM is advisory, and the Minister of Justice, Cătălin Predoiu, sent the proposals to the president accompanied by an official letter in which he affirms that he maintains them “legally argued and motivated”.
Giorgiana Hosu was, at the time of her appointment as DIICOT head, DIICOT’s deputy chief prosecutor. The prosecutor is more than 20 years old, she served as a DIICOT deputy in the 2013-2015 period, after having previously led the institution’s Service for the Fight against Economic-Financial Macro Financing for five years.
After which Alina Bica resigned In 2015, Giorgiana Hosu assumed the interim management of the institution from the position of chief prosecutor of the institution.
DIICOT was then headed by Daniel Horodniceanu’s chief prosecutor.
And Giorgia Hosu’s predecessor as DIICOT’s chief prosecutor, Felix Bănilă, I quit at the request of President Klaus Iohannis, following the mismanagement of the Caracal case. In the Caracal case, Giorgiana Hosu was also personally involved, who had admitted some “communication errors”.
Another controversy in Giorgia Hosu’s tenure as head of DIICOT is related to the protests on August 10, when anti-mafia prosecutors partially closed the 2018 gendarme violence case, but then Giorgiana Hosu partially annulled the dismissal solution and ordered the reopening of the criminal case. former heads of the Gendarmerie.
Editor: Luana Pavaluca
