To avoid giving the impression that the court would discriminate in favor of Vîntu, the computer of the Court of Appeal of Bucharest was used to randomly select the three judges that would try his appeal against the decision of his temporary arrest.
However, one of three judges is Viorica Costiniu, the wife of Florin Costiniu, who is one of the persons indicted in the notorious case of senator "Cătălin Voicu".
Some rumors allege a direct tie between the "Voicu group" and Sorin Ovidiu Vîntu.
Sorina Matei, the journalist that did a lengthy investigation of the businesses of the Cătălin Voicu - Mitică Iliescu group, has issued a theory claiming that the warrant for tapping the phones of Sorin Ovidiu Vîntu was issued precisely because of the "Voicu faction".
According to our information, one of the persons involved in the affairs of the "Voicu group" was an administrator of Gelsor in 1999.
If all of the facts mentioned above are true, then the computer put Mrs. Costiniu in a rather awkward situation.
Since serving as a judge on this case puts her in a possible conflict of interest, she should have declined to appear in court in this particular case.
But refusing to appear in court would have incriminated Florin Costiniu (which can not be asked of his wife), because her refusal to appear in court as judge would have served as an admission of the ties between Vîntu and the "Voicu lot", of which her husband is a member.
That"s one sarcastic computer ...