18.05.2012

            Following the  material published on the blog of the Group for Political Investigation, under the title “The  PhD work  of the general prosecutor  of Romania, Laura Codruţa Kövesi is a plagiarism “

            Mrs. general prosecutor Laura Codruţa Kövesi brings to the  public knowledge the following:

The PhD thesis Fighting against organized  corruption  through provisions of the  criminal law refers to all the authors and the cited works, and the novelty  character  and the scientific value of the work have  been ascertained by the  PhD commission within the West University  in Timisoara.

            According to the methodology, the work has been posted on the site of the organizing institution, and the submitting of the  work was public.

            As any PhD thesis, the work contains the stage of the  researches in the field until the moment  of  the beginning of the effective scientific research and during the whole  time of the scientific research, the  studied  works are quoted as  bibliography, without an express reference. The stage of the research in the field is not fully  mentioned as a quote , and the quotation marks are used only in the case of definitions which  belong  exclusively  to a certain author.

            The thesis contains a number of 444 pages, and the fragments to which the  article refers, represents aspects of generality and not of content. The information volume which the thesis contains can  lead  to the  appearance of material typing errors, even  regarding the names of some authors.

            Also, some fragments, alleged as quoted without the indication of the source, are found in many articles regarding the  fight against  organized criminality  of which I have been author or co-author and which have been published  prior  the year 2005, indicated in the Cv published  since 6 years on the  site of the Public Ministry. Some of these articles are quoted, in turn, in the works to which the  article refers.

            The thesis doesn’t contain the acquiring  of some scientific methodology of another author, and the work indicated in the  content of the article are mentioned as bibliographic source.

            For example, in the content  of the article it is referred  repeatedly to the  work of the authors Gheorghita Mateut and collaborators with the title Traffic of human beings. Offenders, victim, offence. – about which it is sustained  that it was not mentioned, even if it is quoted in the content of the PhD thesis at pages 222, 225,l 224, 234, 240, 260, 273, 274, 278, 282, 284 and 290 – see

            On the other hand,  ion the situations in which the same quote of an author  is found both in the PhD thesis as well as in  another work, there has been quoted only the  initial author, according to the  usual redaction norms  for scientific works.

            Some paragraphs indicated in the article, shown to be acquired form other authors, represent actually  definitions of the offences which a\re found in juridical texts and in international conventions, or evolutions of the  criminality presented in the activity reports of the structures of the Public Ministry, which doesn’t form the object of copyright.

            The article tries to exploit the media moment marked  by the similar controversies in the last period and we differentiate our attempts to involve the Public Ministry in  controversies which have no connection with the judicial activity.

            Taking into account the content of the article, the general prosecutor Laura Codruţa Kövesi has requested the SUPERIOR COUNCIL OF MAGISTRATURE   for  defending the  professional reputation.