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On Sunday, 18th December 2016, 11.00 a.m., at the NTB Painting Hall, General Dan Voinea shall hold the conference entitled The Legal Truth about December 1989.

About the Conference

As the commemoration of the events from 22nd December 1989 draws near, the last Conference of the National Theatre from this year has General Dan Voinea as its guest, the magistrate who handled two of the major post-December files: the Revolution file from December 1989 and the Miner Strike file from 13-15 June 1990. On the occasion of the conference, the volume „The Secret Service File. Marian Munteanu and Miron Cozma versus University Square” by Ramona Ursu shall be launched, published at Integral Publishing, 2016. The volume presents in detail the connections of Marian Munteanu and Miron Cozma with the Securitate (Secret Service during Communism). Both the students’ leader and the „general” of the miners were sources of the former Securitate. Munteanu, baptised „Ioan” by the secret service agents, has signed commitments and written informative notes about former professors and colleagues from the faculty, until the year of the Revolution, whereas Cozma, going by the code name „Paul”, had the task to provide information on his colleagues from the mine. Although he firmly denied allegations after the Revolution regarding any kind of connection to Ceaușescu’s Securitate, CNSAS has established, both in the case of Munteanu and in Cozma’s case that they were informants and have written informative notes, whereas the former students’ leader even received money for „his services”. Price of a volume: 50 lei.

„The legal file of the events of 16-22 December 1989 is much more different from what is circulated in the political circles and the mass-media and contradicts speculations according to which a coup d’état had taken place in Romania. It results from the file that the overthrow of the communist regime was owed to the sacrifice of young Romanians and not an outcome of the KGB and other foreign secret services intervention. The same file states that in the time frame 22-28 December ’89, the terrorist phenomenon manifests itself, with the aim of repressing the insurrection and restoring the representatives of the communist administration. The cause for the delay of the investigations in the files regarding the victims of December 1989 is the politically orchestrated justice, which influenced the solving of the files meant to unmask the crimes of December 89 and of the miner strikes. The same forces which acted punitively in ‘89 also acted on 13-15 June 1990. ”

About Gen. Dan Voinea

Dan Voinea (born on 23 July 1950) is a Romanian general and magistrate. He is a military prosecutor since 1982, from 1997 to 2000 he acted as head of the Military Prosecution Service within the Prosecutor’s Office of the High Court of Cassation and Justice. In December 1989, when he held the degree of Major at the Military Prosecution Directorate, he was appointed Prosecutor in the trial of Elena and Nicolae Ceaușescu, where he drafted the accusation based on which the couple was sentenced to death and executed, on 25th December 1989. General Magistrate Voinea is the one who handled two of the major post-December files, the one of the Revolution from December 1989 and of the miners’ strike from 13-15 June 1990. Other handled files include the one for the attack against the „Free Europe” radio station, based in Munich, perpetrated by Carlos the Jackal at the request of Nicolae Ceaușescu, in 1981.

In 2006, Dan Voinea was appointed deputy military prosecutor of the Military Prosecution Service within the Public Prosecutor’s Department. He was proposed by the former Minister of Justice, Monica Macovei, receiving afterwards a unanimously favourable decision from the Superior Council of Magistracy. Until October 2007, he also held the interim position as head of the Military Prosecution Services.

In 2008, the head of the Public Ministry, Laura Kövesi, has requested Voinea’s dismissal from the position of deputy head of the Military Prosecution Service due to a faulty use of the department’s human resources. She accused him of not finishing even after 18 years the files of the Revolution and the miner strikes. Through decrees signed by President Traian Băsescu, on 20 March 2009, General Major Magistrate Dan Voinea was dismissed from the position of deputy prosecutor at the Military Prosecution Service within the Prosecutor’s Office of the High Court of Cassation and Justice, and on 1st April he was forced to retire.

In 2009, the Superior Council of Magistracy (CSM) has rejected Voinea’s request to be rehired as civil prosecutor at the Supreme Court.

Currently, Dan Voinea is a lawyer and lecturer of the „Titu Maiorescu” University.

Translated by Simona Nichiteanu