Romanian Journalist Emilia Șercan: “I have decided to publicly denounce the defamation and intimidation operations to which I have been subjected following January 18, 2022, the day I revealed that Romanian PM Nicolae Ciucă’s PhD thesis was plagiarized.”
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>”This text is not about my private life.
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>This text is about the way in which an investigative journalist is being threatened, harassed, intimidated and discredited – not by representatives of organized crime groups, but with the intercession and complicity of Romanian state officials!
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>I have decided to publicly denounce the defamation and intimidation operations to which I have been subjected following January 18, 2022, the day I revealed that Romanian PM Nicolae Ciucă’s PhD thesis was plagiarized.
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>I have made this decision because this time the key player is the Romanian state itself: a piece of evidence I provided to the Romanian Police, with the end goal of identifying someone who had perpetrated a violation of privacy, was leaked from the criminal file that very same day and became the basis of an extensive kompromat operation.
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>I gave criminal investigation bodies enough time to investigate the information leak that I denounced on February 18, 2022.
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>For 45 days, I haven’t even been heard in the case opened on the basis of my complaint that denounced the leak.
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