A careful analysis of CECCAR’s official website (ceccar.ro) reveals a serious attempt to manipulate public information, with significant implications for compliance with Law 361/2022 on protection of integrity whistleblowers.
A page claiming to have been published at the beginning of 2024 does not appear in public internet archives and is not found in Google results — although it claims the opposite: that CECCAR implemented a reporting system as early as 2023.
The page in question is: https://ceccar.ro/ro/?page_id=30891, titled “Institutional integrity for the public interest whistleblower.”
CECCAR states on that page that “…it operationalised, from 20.12.2023, both the internal and external reporting channels for implementing Law 361/2022 on protection of whistleblowers in the public interest.”
This claim is crucial — it communicates that CECCAR complied with the law one month before the deadline.
But the technical evidence points the other way:
1. The page is not present in public web archives.
A search for the URL in the Wayback Machine (Internet Archive) returns: “This page has not been archived yet.” There is no trace that the page was publicly available in the past — neither in 2024 nor in 2025.
2. The page is not indexed by Google.
A site:ceccar.ro "page_id=30891" search returns no results. For an organisation of CECCAR’s importance, it is highly unlikely that a genuine public page published in 2024 would never be indexed by Google.
3. The publication date appears only in editable metadata.
In the page’s source code the following metadata is present:<meta property="article:published_time" content="2024-01-29T14:46:43+00:00" /><meta property="article:modified_time" content="2024-01-31T11:16:49+00:00" />
These values can be manually edited in WordPress’s admin panel.
4. The site menu was modified only in September 2025.
Wayback Machine snapshots of the official site show that in July 2025 there was no menu item or section titled “Whistleblower in the public interest” (Original: “Avertizor în interes public“).
July 21, 2025 Version (No Whistleblower Button)
Screenshot Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20250721153818/https:/ceccar.ro/ro/
In this version, the main menu contains no reference to whistleblowers or Law 361/2022. There is no button, link, or public signaling about a reporting channel or whistleblower protection.
September 24, 2025 Version (New Button Added)
Screenshot Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20250924142322/https://ceccar.ro/ro/
This is the first time a new button entitled “Public Interest Whistleblower“ (Original: “Avertizor în interes public“) appears in the left-hand site menu, which links directly to the page under investigation: https://ceccar.ro/ro/?page_id=30891
If CECCAR had an operational reporting channel ‘starting from 20.12.2023,’ as it claims on the page, it would have been:
- publicly mentioned on the site,
- included in the main menu,
- visible and archived by the Wayback Machine much earlier.
The fact that this button only appears in September 2025 directly contradicts the official claim regarding the implementation date.
Thus, the page appears to have been created after the relevant events but back-dated, in order to falsely claim that CECCAR was in compliance with the law. If this is true, we are looking at:
- official misinformation in a legal context;
- date manipulation to create an appearance of legality;
- potential criminal and civil consequences in ongoing court cases.
Furthermore, there are individuals who claim they were directly harmed by the lack of application of the Whistleblower Law. This back-dated page could be used as a fabricated defence, which is extremely serious.
Competent authorities should investigate whether a case of digital falsification occurred with the aim of simulating compliance with whistleblower legislation.
A Romanian version of this article is available here:
https://cecar.ro/ceccar-pagina-antedatata-pentru-a-simula-conformarea-la-lege/