PG Lazar: In 2017, prosecutors solved 533,040 case files, sent 59,839 defendants to trial

Prosecutor General Augustin Lazar on Wednesday stated that, in 2017, the prosecutors instrumented 1,752,067 case files, out of which they managed to solve 533,040, 58,839 defendants being sent to trial.

"The major coordinates of the prosecutors' activity in 2017 were represented by the large number of cases solved, their special complexity, object and nature, the large number of persons involved, the diversity of social and legal fields they had to deal with in these cases and the multi-disciplinary approach of the cases, some of them with reverberations in the recent history of Romania," stated Lazar, on the occasion of the presentation of the Public Ministry's activity report for last year. 

The general prosecutor showed that, in 2017, the prosecutors had 1,752,067 case files to deal with, out of which they solved 533,040, sending 59,839 defendants to trial (some 3,882 of which were minors). Out of the total number of defendants, 6,092 were held into custody.

Out of the total number of defendants sent to trial, 20,380 committed crimes against safety on public roads, more than a half driving under the influence of alcohol or other substances.

Moreover, 1,036 defendants were definitively acquitted.