A panel of five judges from the supreme court upheld on Tuesday the 2018 decision of the Superior Council of Magistracy by which Judge Camelia Bogdan – the one who sentenced Dan Voiculescu to 10 years in prison – was excluded from the judiciary for disciplinary offenses.
Judge Camelia BogdanPhoto: Capture YouTube
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The High Court of Cassation and Justice rejected as unfounded the appeal declared by Camelia Bogdan against the decision pronounced on April 2, 2018 by the Section for Judges in Disciplinary Matters of the SCM, thus maintaining the decision to exclude from the judiciary, writes Agerpres. The decision of the magistrates is final.
On April 2, 2018, the Judges’ Section of the SCM decided, for the second time, to exclude Judge Camelia Bogdan from the judiciary.
The decision was made on the basis of a report of the Judicial Inspection in which Camelia Bogdan was accused of not respecting the provisions regarding the random distribution of cases, when she was a judge at the Criminal Section of the Bucharest Court of Appeal.
According to the Judicial Inspection, Camelia Bogdan allegedly received several cases for trial in January 2016, which had initially been assigned to another judge, but who had gone on leave. After the incumbent judge returned from leave, Camelia Bogdan allegedly kept a file in which she ordered, in May 2016, the confiscation of sums of money, among those targeted was notary Jean Aurel Andrei, Laura Andrei’s husband, then president of the Bucharest Tribunal. It is about the case in which Jean Aurel Andrei was accused together with Radu Mazăre for illegal restitution of land in Mamaia.
Camelia Bogdan had also received an exclusion decision from the SCM in February 2017, but it was annulled in court.
She was part of the panel of the Bucharest Court of Appeal which definitively sentenced Dan Voiculescu to 10 years in prison.
The judicial inspection established that she was in incompatibility / conflict of interest, as she taught in 2014 at a seminar on fraud and corruption prevention, attended by officials from APIA, an institution subordinate to the Ministry of Agriculture, which was a civil party in the case in which Dan Voiculescu was convicted, respectively the fraudulent privatization of the Food Research Institute (ICA).
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