Ludmila Goncear, university professor of law, says she is a victim of corruption within the judiciary, being threatened and persecuted for 4 years, since she took action in court request to solve a labor dispute.
She told a press conference that she had a dispute with the administration of the International Management Institute “IMI-NOVA” in 2009, when she noticed that 74 students who failed civil law exams, which she taught, were admitted to the graduation exam. She heard from other faculty that the students paid to be admitted.
“I went to the provost to talk about this practice of selling grades and he told me I wasn't a prosecutor to run investigations in the institution. The head of the study division, who is in charge of the tally sheets, confessed that she and the deputy provost gave passing grades to the students who got a fail. Both lack a civil law background. The provost said he decides what's to be done and, instead of conducting an internal inquiry, he has persecuted me for a year”, complains Goncear.
Her workload was reduced and at the beginning of a new academic year, when she was labor disabled because of a miscarriage, the provost terminated her contract, claiming she had missed work without justification, despite her medical leave certificate confirmed by the Ministry of Health.
Ludmila Goncear says she took action in court to get a cancellation of the dismissal order and be restored to her post. However, Gheorghe Avornic, dean of the Law Department at USM in 2011, presented a letter, which Goncear says was fake, claimin that she taught her classes at USM during the sick leave. The escalation of the labor dispute led to several civil and penal proceedings against her, including one for forging documents (the grades on the tally sheet), which have been in court for more than three years.
Goncear says she was also sued by IMI-NOVA who wants 25,000 lei in damages for the labor dispute expenses, even though the Labor Code exempts employees in labor disputes from court expenses.
The professor collected all the evidence from all the proceedings against her and sent them to Speaker Igor Corman and President Nicolae Timofti. Goncear says that the authorities merely confirmed they received the notification and transmitted it to the Prosecutor General's Office and the Superior Council of Magistrates, who “had previously refused to investigate the wrongdoings committed by judges in the civil and penal proceedings” against her.
