On the list of teachers invited to teach at the National Defense College is Ioana Vârsta (50 years old), released from prison in 2017 after, two years before, she had been sentenced to 5 years in prison in the famous Ridzi Case-May 2 . The representatives of the National Defense University “Carol I”, which is subordinated to the College, said that, by sentence, Age is not prohibited from teaching.
According to the Linkedin account, Age has been teaching since 2020. “Diplomatic protocol and etiquette”At the National Defense College. “And not only there, and at the Romanian Diplomatic Institute, as well as at other entities. I wrote a book in this field, over 900 pages, now in its third edition and sold in thousands of copies “, said Vârsta, who added that the presence on the list of teachers at the College took place on the basis of a recommendation , without wishing to disclose the name of the person who made it.
The representatives of the University also stated that Vârsta became a collaborator of the College “As the author of the paper Protocol and diplomatic etiquette”.
In February 2015, Vârsta was definitively convicted in the Ridzi-May 2 case, a case started by DNA following an investigation by Gazeta Sportulor.
Prosecutors have charged her that in April-May 2009, as a personal adviser to Monica Iacob Ridzi, Minister of Youth and Sports, Ioana Vârsta committed crimes of complicity in abuse of office against public interests in a qualified manner if the civil servant obtained for another a patrimonial advantage, complicity in intellectual forgery in connection with acts of corruption in a continuous form, forgery in documents under private signature in continuous form, improper participation in intellectual forgery in the accounting law in connection with acts of corruption in continuous form, use of forgery in connection with acts of corruption.
She allegedly helped Ridzi use the Ministry’s financial resources, allocated to National Youth Day, to create and broadcast advertising products through which she promoted her image as a politician.
In February 2015, Age was sentenced to 5 years in prison and banned, for a period of 3 years, after serving the main sentence, the right to be elected to public authority or public office, to hold office. involving the exercise of state authority and to hold a position or to exercise a profession or to carry out an activity, of the nature of the one used for the commission of the crime. Conditional release in 2017,
Age is still listed in the criminal record with that conviction. According to his statement, the rehabilitation (deletion from the criminal record) is to take place at the beginning of next year. Regarding this punishment, the University stated that Age “was not prohibited from supporting teaching activities, being invited to carry out these activities within the National Defense College pro bono.”
In several post-release posts, Vârsta expressed distrust of the justice system that led to her conviction, distributing posts by controversial figures such as Diana Gârbovan, Cristian Terheș and Liviu Pleșoianu or supporting Poland’s anti-EU stance. at some point.
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She categorically denied that this distrust was also expressed during the courses at the National Defense College, claiming that “these are completely different issues. My expertise has nothing to do with the other situation. “
The National Defense College was established by the Ministry of National Defense in 1992, within the “Carol I” National Defense University.
According to the founding act, “civilian and military personalities, graduates of civil or military higher education institutes, who hold or may hold, in the future, leadership and decision-making functions in the fields of national security and defense policy. “
Currently, many politicians or heads of administration have in their CVs diplomas received from this College.
6 years ago, a press investigation showed that one fifth of the parliamentarians had such a diploma, among them Vasile Blaga, Liviu Dragnea, Alina Gorghiu, Gabriel Oprea, Victor Ponta and Elena Udrea. Among the current politicians who graduated from this College is the Prime Minister Nicolae Ciuca, who is also the president of the PNL, or the leader of the PSD, Marcel Ciolacu.
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