Presidency Administration announced yesterday that the documents unveiled by the Group for Political Investigations had been used by the Ministry of Defense in the trial Traian Basescu vs. Mugur Ciuvica. Presidency Administration reminds that Ciuvica lost the latter trial after the appeal by Bucharest Courthouse and he was sentenced to pay 500 million ROL as moral damages to Traian Basescu. The document also mentions that Traian Basescu has never been a collaborator/agent of the Securitate as political police and says the register pointed to has frequently been presented to the press ever since 1993. The document emphasizes: "President Traian Basescu has never signed an agreement with the Securitate and has never collaborated with the Securitate as political police." (...)

Anca HRIBAN