The Superior Magistracy Council restricts press acces to corruption files

Newsroom 06/05/2014 | 16:25

The Superior Magistracy Council (CSM) is debating today the communication guide between the press and the magistrates, which should be correlated with the New Criminal Code and the New Criminal Procedure Code. After various sessions of debates, CSM published on May 5 a new version of the guide, which restricts press access to corruption files, writes Gandul.info newspaper.

The CSM proposes that the press no longer have access to the indictment in the corruption files but only to extracts which will lack a substantial part of the data.

According to an excerpt from Article 27, quoted by Gandul.info, “the extract will comprise the situation de facto, eliminating the passages which include information that, if disclosed, this would represent a violation of the right to private life, as well as the passages referring to evidence and the analysis of evidence.”

Even though the Council management met at least four times with the press and the NGOs, the new version of the guide limits the access of the press to information from certain files such as corruption files, writes Gandul.info
Otilia Haraga