The ruling coalition’s presidential candidate Crin Antonescu gave a statement to the Securitate political police in 1988, but he cannot be considered an informant or collaborator of the communist secret police, the National Council for the Study of the Securitate Archives (CNSAS) has determined.

The certificate published on the CNSAS website shows that Antonescu appears in an intelligence file and gave in 1988 an informative note about a friend, at the time when he was a teacher at the Niculitel School (Tulcea County).

The CNSAS document states that as part of the investigation initiated by the Securitate into Antonescu’s friend, who is named by his initials C.S., as well as into the latter’s entourage, Crin Antonescu – a close friend of C.S. – was summoned to the Securitate organs and gave a statement dated 13.01.1988, handwritten and signed with his real name.

CNSAS holds that Crin Antonescu cannot be considered a collaborator of the communist Securitate, and that the checks carried out until 31.03.2025 revealed no documents or information regarding Antonescu’s membership of the structures of the former Ministry of Interior, as an officer or non-commissioned officer of the Securitate or Militia, so that he doesn’t fall under the definition of Securitate worker, in the meaning of the law.

AGERPRES