Head of Romania’s Department for Emergency Situations says prosecutor abused powers in alleged fictitious employment case

27 July 2026 The head of Romania's Department for Emergency Situations (DSU), Raed Arafat, claimed in a video posted on Facebook that the case concerning fictitious employment contracts at the institution he heads was fabricated. The DSU head said that official checks "confirmed that the prosecutor artificially established jurisdiction in the case by invoking a fabricated factual circumstance." The discovery “dismantles the foundation on which the entire case was built,” Arafat argued. According to him, based on these "artificial premises," the prosecutor conducted investigations for more than a year without the targeted persons being informed and without them being able to exercise their procedural rights. At the same time, Arafat added, "the same allegations" were used to obtain "authori