Former Prime Minister Petre Roman arrived at the General Prosecutor’s Office on Thursday morning, to be informed of the accusations in the Mineriada (Miners’ Riot) file from June 13-15, 1990. Petre Roman is accused of crimes against humanity in a file in which former president Ion Iliescu is also being investigated , Gelu Voican Voiculescu, the former head of the SRI, Virgil Măgureanu, but also the former leader of the miners, Miron Cozma.
Former president Ion Iliescu will be questioned by prosecutors at home on Friday, according to judicial sources.
On April 16, President Klaus Iohannis gave his approval for the indictment of Petre Roman and Gelu Voican Voiculescu.
The prosecutors must start the investigation in this file from scratch, after the evidence collected by the investigators was annulled in court. Initially, in June 2017, former president Ion Iliescu was sent to court for crimes against humanity, along with former prime minister Petre Roman and former SRI director Virgil Măgureanu, but in December 2020, the High Court of Cassation and Justice decided to return the file to the Military Prosecutor’s Office, for rebuilding the investigation from scratch.
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