* The prime-prosecutor of Gheorgheni, arrested
* According to a report by the Neuer Weg association, "Mircea Duşa, the current Minister of Defense (originating from Topliţa) and the head of the County Police Inspectorate of Harghita, Radu-Sandu Moldovan, have protected the perpetrators of illegal woodcutting over time", according to a report by the Neuerr Weg association
Illegal logging is one of the crimes which are the hardest to stamp out in Romania. Between 1990-2011 366,000 hectares forest were cleared, both on the forest districts of the state, as well on private properties, according to the investigation of the Court of Accounts. There are however unofficial claims that the surface would be much greater.
According to the reports in the press, over the last few years "the timber mafia" has been aided by politicians, local authorities, and law enforcement employees.
One such example is prosecutor Majeczki Izabella, of the Prosecutors' Office of the County Court of Gheorgheni, which according to sources in the press, was one of the people who abetted certain individuals suspected of illegal logging in the county of Harghita.
According to a press release of the National Anticorruption Department (DNA), Majeczki Izabella is being charged by the prosecutors of the DNA with acts of corruption, accepting bribes and inciting to committing forgery. "The prosecutors of the National Anticorruption Department are investigating a criminal case concerning acts of corruption which involve a prosecutor who is a member of the Prosecutors' Office attached to the Court of Appeal of Braşov. The prosecutor will be tried for accepting bribes and abetting forgery in private deeds", the press release of the National Anti-Corruption Department states.
Dezideriu Garda, the only member of the Chamber of Deputies against whom criminal prosecution was b
