Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta did NOT plagiarize PhD thesis. Prosecutor General drops charges

Prosecutor General of Romania decided on Tuesday not to sue country’s Prime Minister Victor Ponta who has been for nearly a year at the center of a plagiarism scandal involving his 2003 PhD thesis on the International Criminal Court. After a “detailed” analysis of the data provided by various committees, the prosecutors concluded that Ponta did not plagiarize. The decision comes just days after Tiberiu Nitu was named as the head the Prosecution Office.

The Ethics Committee of the University of Bucharest had announced in July 2012 that the PhD thesis of Prime Minister Victor Ponta is a rude plagiarism as 115 out of the 303 pages contained sections literally copied “by taking full text blocks, lines or combined text blocks without referencing the sources.”

“The Committee express (…) serious doubts about the quality of the scientific work in this case,” reads the report of the Ethics Committee.

The report highlighted “various paragraphs across the thesis that were copied and the way they were plagiarized”.

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The decision of the Ethics Committee of the Bucharest University was announced a day after the National Ethics Council (subordinated to Ministry of Education) said that Victor Ponta’s PhD title in Law was attained in accordance with the legislation in force in 2003 and the plagiarism accusations can not be maintained.

“The title of Doctor in Law was obtained by Mr. Victor Viorel Ponta in accordance with the 2003 legislation and the plagiarism charges related to the PhD thesis entitled “International Criminal Court” can not stand anymore” it was shown in the official final report of the government ethics board.