Romanian Parliamentary Committee To Hear Mordechai Tzivin, the lawyer of Omar Hayssam

The Romanian parliamentary Committee in charge with supervising the activity of the counterintelligence service, or SRI, decided Wednesday to hear Israeli lawyer Mordechai Tzivin, upon his request.
Tzivin is representing Syrian citizen Omar Hayssam, indicted in Romania on terrorism and money laundering charges.

Tzivin sent Wednesday a second letter to the Romanian parliament, this time directed to the House Speaker, Bogdan Olteanu. Tzivin"s previous letter was directed to Radu Stroe, the head of the Committee supervising the SRI.

Tzivin alleges that he has proofs Romanian officials and intelligence service officers breached the law, and wants the Romanian parliament to see his documents and proofs and hear him on the matter.

Along with deciding to hear Tzivin, the Committee also asked for all documents and probes to be filed with it. The Committee also said it will ask the Prosecutor"s Office to step in if it would receive information regarding breaches to the law.

In his letter to Oltean, Tzivin said that the information he was holding was not relevant only to the Committee supervising the SRI, but also to other state authorities, and for this reason he said a special parliamentary Committee should be set up to hear him, to monitor all the subsequent investigations, and make public clear the conclusions of these investigations.

“I will come to Romania to present all the information I am in possession of and deliver all the answers the Committee will ask me,” said Tzivin. “I state these in order to fend off any thoughts you might have regarding my motives. I have no ulterior motives and come in good faith to help your country learn the truth about crucial matters,” he wrote in his letter.

Omar Hayssam fled Romania last year when he was released from prison on health grounds, while he was still waiting trial on terrorism and money laundering charges. Hayssam was allegedly responsible for masterminding the kidnapping of three Romanian journalists in Iraq, two years ago.