Penal Notifications
Penal Notification against Vasile Paraschiv's Torturers
On Tuesday, July 8, 2008, the Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes in Romania (IICCR) submitted a penal notification regarding the deeds committed by 67 people (former agents of the repressive organs of the communist totalitarian state – the Securitate, the Militia, the Prosecutor's Office, as well as different party activists and psychiatrists) about whom there is incriminatory evidence concerning Vasile Paraschiv's abusive interviewing, repeated kidnapping and torturing, as well as the psychiatric guise under which he was subjected to cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment for his anti-communist attitude and convictions.
Penal Notification against Moldovan Radu Sandu, police chief-inspector and chief of the Harghita County Police Inspectorate
On 19 February 2008, the Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes in Romania submitted a penal notification to the Military Prosecutor’s Office with the High Court of Cassation and Justice. The document focuses on the deeds of Moldovan Radu Sandu, former chief officer within the Judicial Office of the Militia Department in Miercurea Ciuc, in the interval 1985-1991. Moldovan Radu Sandu is presently a police chief-inspector and chief of the Harghita County Police Inspectorate.
The deeds he is accused of refer to his abusive inquiring methods applied to a great number of persons, most of whom minors, as well as to the torture inflicted on them, in his position as chief officer within the Judicial Office of the Militia Department in Miercurea Ciuc.
Penal Notification against the Securitate General Nicolae Pleşiţă
On 7 November 2007, the Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes in Romania submitted a notification to the Military Prosecutor’s Office with the High Court of Cassation and Justice, incriminating deeds of which there is evidence they were committed by the Securitate general Nicolae Pl eşiţă and five former diplomats of the Socialist Republic of Romania ’s Embassy in Bonn, namely Dan Mihoc, Constantin Ciobanu, Ion Constantin, Ioan Lupu and Ion Grecu. The above-mentioned deeds refer to placing/facilitating the placement of explosive devices within the parcels that were sent to three well-known Romanian dissidents, in February 1981. The names of these contestants of the communist regime are Paul Goma, Nicolae Penescu and Şerban Orescu. The aim of the foregoing attempt envisaged killing or at least severely harming the three dissidents so as other contestants of the communist regime in Bucharest be intimidated.
The IICCR to send notorious torturer Gheorghe Enoiu before Court
On 9 August 2007, the Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes in Romania submitted a notification to the Military Prosecutor’s Office with the High Court of Cassation and Justice, incriminating the deeds of Gheorghe Enoiu, reserve colonel, former officer within the State Security Department.
The substance of the penal action introduced by the IICCR resides in facts which are indicted both by the Romanian and the international legislation as crimes against humanity. During his service as an active officer of the Securitate, Gheorghe Enoiu conducted abusive enquiries on a great number of people in the interval 1950-1989, either directly or through his subordinates.
At the IICCR’s notification, 210 former penitentiary commanders of communist Romania to be inquired by the Prosecutor’s Office under the accusation of genocide
Pursuing the objectives stated within its setting-up Decree, on 22 May 2007 the IICCR lodged a notification against 210 former commanders of penitentiaries, labour camps or labour colonies where political prisoners had been detained during the communist regime. The 210 persons were identified by the Institute’s experts during their researches within the Archives of the National Administration Center for Penitentiaries (ANP).
The former commanders of penitentiaries, labour camps or labour colonies, where prisoners were administered inhumane treatments, acted as a collective, and responsibility consequently reverts to all of them. The 210 former commanders will be inquired by the Military Prosecutor’s Office under the accusation of genocide.
Securitate officers who drafted minors
On 4 December 2006, the IICCR’s representatives submitted a notification to the Military Prosecutor’s Office with the High Court of Cassation and Justice . The notification refers to the abuses committed by the Securitate officers in Sibiu county, who recruited minors with a view to use them as informers.