Parliamentary committee on Intelligence Service supervision checks West Transylvania Regional Directorate

The members of the Parliamentary Committee for the control of the activity of the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI) carried out a control activity at the Regional Intelligence Directorate Transilvania Vest, on which occasion they were informed about the main security risks in the region, including in the context of the war in Ukraine, Agerpres reports.

According to a press release, the committee went to Cluj this week, working at the main headquarters of the Regional Intelligence Directorate Transilvania Vest (DRITV) of SRI, according to the control plan for 2022.

"The MPs from the committee and the representatives of the regional leadership of SRI discussed the activity of DRITV - which has jurisdiction in Cluj, Bihor and Salaj counties, following the reorganization of SRI in regional format, in 2019, about the risks managed at the level of the Directorate on, both the domestic and external dimension, and about the challenges and security risks managed in the pandemic and at present, in the context of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict," reads the same press release.

The leadership of the Service also reported that, in what concerns the external dimension, the main security risks were amplified in the context of the war in Ukraine.

The president of the committee, senator Cristian Chirtes, stated that he asked the Service to pay attention to the project for the construction of the Cluj Regional Hospital.

Chirtes also mentioned that the members of the committee drew attention to the danger generated by fake-news and misinformation.

DRITV is the fifth regional directorate of the SRI, out of the 11, that receives a working visit of the control committee, in this legislature, the same source also states.