Adoption judges
- The culprits for the disappearance of 404 adoption files from the Bucharest Court were discovered, but left unpunished, being tolerated by the Ministry of Justice. Other magistrates involved: Florea Visan, Mirela Pod, Mihai Tomescu, Daniela Bragau
Former Minister of Justice Valeriu Stoica presented to the press yesterday a scathing document, which for the first time sheds light on the phenomenon of child adoptions and the disappearance of 404 adoption files from the archives of the Bucharest Court, offenses for which no one has been punished so far. . A control carried out by the inspecting judges Gabriela Barsan, Carmen Grigore, George Ezer and Iulian Teodoriu, from the Court of Appeal and respectively the Ministry of Justice, between April and May 1997, tried to establish the responsibilities for the disappearance from the archives of the Bucharest Court of 404 files. adoptions.
The criminal phenomenon, of maximum gravity, occurred between 1990 and 1995, finding that 173 files were missing from 1990 to 1993, and the remaining 231 from 1994 to 1995. When these files disappeared, it was not possible specify with certainty, but the names of the judges and clerks involved in the adoption industry, who escaped the disciplinary sanctions on the grounds that they can no longer be applied, according to Law 92/1992 regarding the judicial organization, were established only within 1 year of at the date of the commission of the facts. On the criminal side, however, we mention that the General Prosecutor's Office buried these files, the prosecutors proving complicit with those who stole and destroyed from the TB archives the 404 files, to cover the traces of an "international trade" with children.
Thieves organized into gangs