Even if the institutional crisis existing in Romania is very widely spread, the similar process which affects the justice department has deeper effects on the society in general, since it erodes the latter's fundamental role of regulator of the excesses and skiddings which appear in the economic and political domain. The recent scandal which has affected the justice department, generated by some spectacular arrestings concerning influential judges and prosecutors from Bucharest, offers us the example of a rabbinical dilemma. It is very difficult not to approve those who say that corruption is widely spread within the justice department and ask for radical measures meant to limit this phenomenon. At the same time, it is also very difficult not to approve Gunther Verheugen's sayings concerning the danger of a political interference in the juridical domain. Everybody who lives in the real world has heard about how one can be released from prison in exchange for a huge amount of money, how a trial may be delayed for a very long period of time or how a stupefying sentence may be formulated. The reverse side of this situation is also valid: files may be "made up" against the persons who disturb the activity of some influential groups or against political enemies. Such practices are very frequent, especially when new changes, required by the electoral cycle, appear. How can one trust the juridical system when investigations initiated with very much enthusiasm, such as the ones directed against Razvan Temesan, George Constantin Paunescu or Corneliu Iacobov, fail because of a "procedural mistake" or because of some reasons which are very difficult to understand for someone who is not included in this system? What can the public opinion think when, all of a sudden, Ovidiu Budusan, the prosecutor who was investigating the Costea case together with the French justice department,