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

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International adoptions. For the benefit of the uninformed journalists, here is how the authorities of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Italy have followed and verified the adoption procedures of Italian couples

Adoptions in the Democratic Republic of Congo return to being debated topic on the web. These days, in fact, some blog is back on the issue of international adoptions in the African country, the protagonists of a block started September 25, 2013 by decision of the local General Directorate of Migration (DGM) and ended only in late 2015 , when a special Inter-ministerial Commission, mandated to review all pending cases, after finishing its verification work, has given the green light for the granting of exit permits from the country by the DGM for children adopted by foreign families.Among the pending cases, many were related to Italian couples , whose dossier turned out all approved by the Interministerial Commission , composed of representatives of all Congolese ministries involved in intercountry adoption procedures. Therefore the children of the Democratic Republic of Congo adopted by families in our country could finally leave for Italy in full regularity and compliance with the laws of their country of origin.

However, some journalists, obviously poorly informed about the adoption procedures in force in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, continue to describe the African country as a land of "Wild West" where to lord it isthe legislative confusion and the absence of any controls by the authorities administrative and judicial.

For the benefit of those who think that the Democratic Republic of Congo is a kind of state without laws, we describe how to take place the steps leading to the adoption of a minor.

Each time you find an abandoned child, the social services of the reference Hall first issue the certificate of provisional custody and place the child with a foster family or an institution. The confirmation of this measure should arrive within 5 days of the Juvenile Court . Then it's up to the same Social Services noted the status of the child abandonment, by issuing the relevant certificate. It is at this point that the reception facilities reporting the minor for adoption to an authorized organization to operate in Congolese territory. At the same time, these institutions also receive information on the child and its abandonment certificate. Then the competent Juvenile Court to give the judgment of birth.

Orban wants to make the foundation of the "Orphan Mogul of Romania" public utility. The foundation, accused in a documentary of experiments on children in Romania

A draft Government decision was posted on the website of the Ministry of Labor, led by Violeta Alexandru, and the project is in public debate until February 12, 2020. The foundation note and the draft Government decision, assumed by Prime Minister Ludovic Orban, Deputy Prime Minister Raluca Turcan, as well as the ministers Violeta Alexandru, Vasile Florin Cî?u and Marian C?t?lin Predoiu, show that they declare as "of public utility" the "Sera Romania" Foundation, which requested this from the General Secretariat of the Government and which invested in Romania during the period 1996-2019, in the child protection programs about 85 million euros.

The SERA Foundation (Solidarity with Abandoned Romanian Children) is founded in the 1990s by the banker Francois Polge de Combret, investigated by several authorities in a huge corruption scandal, the Combret Frenchman being over time extremely interested in children. orphans from Romania and making a very strong lobby in Brussels.

The SERA Foundation (Solidarity with Abandoned Romanian Children) also appears in a documentary broadcast on 2009 on German WDR television, “Find me a child, I pay cash. Lobby for international adoptions ", in which are presented the pressures made to European officials for the resumption by Romania of international adoptions and it was even accused that it financed, together with American universities, the program" Project for Adoption ", carried out at the Saint Catherine Center in Bucharest, through which scientific experiments were carried out on orphaned Romanian children.

The executive director of the SERA Romania Foundation is Bogdan Simion, initially proposed, in the past, even by the former prime minister Dacian Ciolo? to be minister of Labor, but for different reasons Ciolo? has renounced its non-monetization. Bogdan Simion, a wealthy man, was also vice president of CES and, according to his statement of wealth, he also consulted with the Tanner Foundation, the World Bank and the International Bank for Reconstruction.

YEREVAN—The Investigative Committee of Armenia arrested three civil servants late last week in connection with the National Security Service’s (NSS) ongoing investigation into illegal international adoptions. Officials arrested Liana Karapetyan, the director of a Yerevan orphanage; Razmik Abrahamyan, the director of the Republican Maternity Hospital; and Arshak Jerjeryan, Abrahamyan’s deputy director at the hospital. Abrahamyan had also served as head Obstetrician and Gynecologist of Armenia for several years.

The three stand accused of conspiring with two unnamed individuals in an alleged scheme to illegally separate newborns from their parents and present them as orphans to international adoption agencies. The Investigative Committee has not disclosed the identity of a fourth conspirator implicated in the case. Data produced by the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs reveals that 54 children were adopted overseas between 2016 and 2018, and authorities now suspect that at last 30 of those may have been cases of illegal international child trafficking.

Dr. Abrahamyan has been charged with two counts under the Armenian Criminal Code: Article 167 (illegal separation of the child from the parents or substitution of the child) and Article 200 (commercial bribe). The 76-year-old wasn’t placed under pre-trial detention despite a motion filed by the NSS. Yerevan Children’s Home Director Karapetyan, who was charged with Article 167 and Article 314 (official forgery), has since been released on bail after posting the three million AMD ($6,300) required. A third—unnamed—suspect also posted bail set at five million AMD ($10,450).

Substantial allegations of ongoing and organized illegal international orphan trafficking are not recent. A 2011 report by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) revealed cases of prospective adoptive parents using such agencies being asked to provide ‘gifts’ to the orphanage managers and other officials in thousands of dollars in cash payments in order for them to “hold on to” their prospective adoptive child. Hmayak Navasardian, head of an Armenian Justice Ministry department coordinating foreign adoption procedures at the time, admitted that such payments are considered illegal under Armenian law.

These cases closely resemble the testimonies of adoptive parents who recently spoke with the Armenian Weekly, which included one woman who described handing bags full of American dollars to a local handler in Armenia, as well as being ‘forced’ to sign forged documents for other American adoptive parents for ‘procedural’ reasons. “Naturally, if there is such a thing, it means not paying for [legal] services but paying bribes,” Navasardian told RFE/RL at the time.

Final verdict in the file of child traffickers in ??nd?rei: the 25 defendants were acquitted

The case of trafficking in children from ??nd?rei, which troubled Romania and the European Union in 2010, ended on Monday, after many delays, with a decision to acquit all the accused. The verdict was given by the Târgu Mure? Court of Appeal.

After more than nine years of delayed trials, the 25 people accused of trafficking nearly 200 children from ??nd?rei in the UK are free as the bird of the sky. Judge Daniel Ursulescu, from the Târgu Mure? Court of Appeal, ordered the acquittal under art. 16 paragraph 1 letter a of the Code of Criminal Procedure - "the deed did not exist". Moreover, the defendants will claim damages at the ECHR for the months in which they were under preventive arrest and for the costs of the court, said lawyer Lorena Maria Cretescu.

In February, all the defendants were acquitted at first instance, or the judges found that the facts were prescribed after the trial was delayed for 9 years, of which only 6 were in Harghita Court, where there were 53 terms. The story of ??nd?rei's case The case of ??nd?rei exploded in 2010, the images of masked men with rattlesnakes breaking through the doors of the palaces of T?nd?rei in search of child traffickers were broadcast by several international TV stations. It was the first case of trafficking in minors investigated by Romanian and English policemen, and the trafficking of 181 Roma children in the United Kingdom was investigated, where they were used for begging and theft.

"The recruitment of minors was carried out in the environment of the poor Roma communities, the members of the group dealing with their accommodation and transport, the procurement of travel documents and the necessary money, as well as the organization and supervision of criminal activity in the United Kingdom and the management of the money obtained from the exploitation. victims, "the prosecutors said. In England, 120 traffickers were arrested and arrested, while some of the 26 people arrested and charged were released after several months. In July 2010, the DIICOT prosecutors completed the investigations and "ordered the prosecution of 26 defendants, 18 of whom were in custody". Among the accusations: trafficking in minors, money laundering, setting up an organized criminal group and possession without firearms.

Miscellaneous

Title UNICEF expresses strong support for the Hague Intercountry Adoption Convention

Year of publication 2010

Description (or download in PDF, if available) The Permanent Bureau welcomes the press release published on 22 July 2010 by UNICEF, in which the United Nations’ Children Fund has given its strong, explicit and unambiguous support to the Hague Convention of 29 May 1993 on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption, as follows:

Statement

Adoptie: wel of niet?

30 september 2019, Josse Wiering

2019

Is het goed of slecht om een kind te adopteren? En moet interlandelijke adoptie blijven bestaan of niet? Bijzonder hoogleraar Femmie Juffer en emeritus bijzonder hoogleraar René Hoksbergen, beide gespecialiseerd in adoptie, bespreken deze kwesties. Maar eens zijn ze het niet.

In de serie 'Ik kóm niet uit Sri Lanka', volgen we Dinja Pannebakker, een jonge vrouw van 32 jaar die geadopteerd is uit Sri Lanka. Zelf voelt zij zich helemaal Nederlands en heeft geen behoefte aan verbinding met haar geboortegrond.

Adoptieprofessor met hart voor het gezin

Henrieke van Dam

17-01-2012

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Finding Farideh

Op eenjarige leeftijd werd Eline Farideh Koning geadopteerd door een Nederlands echtpaar. Maar haar hele leven zal ze verlangen naar haar Iraanse, biologische ouders die ze nog nooit heeft ontmoet. In de documentaire 'Finding Farideh' gaat ze naar hen op zoek. Kijk de docu hier: bit.ly/findingfarideh

Eline Farideh Koning wordt op eenjarige leeftijd geadopteerd door een Nederlands echtpaar, maar haar hele leven lang verlangt ze al naar haar biologische ouders. Ze besluit een oproep te plaatsen in een Iraanse krant. Er reageren drie families. Lukt het Eline haar biologische ouders te vinden? Ontdek het in 'Finding Farideh'.

In gesprek met Eline Farideh Koning

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