Romanian prime minister plagiarism

In January 2022, just months after taking the role of Prime Minister in Romania, Nicolae Ciucă faced a significant plagiarism scandal.

According to reporter Emilia Şercan (link in Romanian), some 42 pages of Ciucă’s 38-page 2013 dissertation from the National Defense University in Bucharest were plagiarized from outside sources. 

Ciucă, for his part, denied the plagiarism and said that his dissertation was legitimate.

However, prosecutors began to build a copyright infringement case against Ciucă.

Romanian prime minister plagiarism

The case made it before the Bucharest Court of Appeal, which struck down the claims involving Ciucă’s work.

Theoretically, this should have been the end of the plagiarism story. With his name cleared and his degree safe, the matters should be resolved.

However, it’s really just the beginning. 

According to an investigation by local news outlet G4Media, the process through which Ciucă’s work was cleared was anything but fair or impartial.

According to G4Media, the case wa