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Several eyewitness accounts identify Voican and [[Dan Iosif]] as leading a platoon of paratroopers, and indirectly the miners themselves, into storming the offices of opposition parties.<ref name="atminerii"/> Others specifically indicate that, on the morning of 14 June, Voican was present at the main building of the [[Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party]] (PNȚCD), which was being ransacked—an alleged witness to the looting, he never intervened to stop it.<ref name="atminerii"/> Trade union leader [[Miron Cozma]], who was eventually prosecuted for his role in leading the miners to Bucharest, named Voican and "two important colonels" as his personal contacts with Iliescu. According to Cozma, Voican personally traveled to [[Petrila]] to make sure that the miners were embarking on trains heading for the capital.<ref>Ramona Feraru, "Cozma recunoaște că Iliescu l-a chemat la București in iunie 1990", in ''[[Evenimentul Zilei]]'', 29 April 2005, p. 3</ref> Several eyewitness accounts identify Voican and [[Dan Iosif]] as leading a platoon of paratroopers, and indirectly the miners themselves, into storming the offices of opposition parties.<ref name="atminerii"/> Others specifically indicate that, on the morning of 14 June, Voican was present at the main building of the [[Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party]] (PNȚCD), which was being ransacked—an alleged witness to the looting, he never intervened to stop it.<ref name="atminerii"/>

Voican's eccentricities and esoteric interests were the subject of public scrutiny and mockery. Journalist Pál Bodor, who met him for an interview in January 1990, was intrigued by the "white-bearded, forty-something giant", a "geologist who came out of nowhere" and lived at his office. Upon greeting Bodor, Voican carried "the most modern machine gun around his neck, [and] a wide [[Maramureș]] peasant leather belt around his waist, with (as I later learned) a gun in it"; his staff included Cerasela, a "strikingly beautiful" female bodyguard.<ref name="pbperén"/> In early 1991, satirist Florin Constantinescu depicted his imaginary meeting with Voican, whom he depicted as using his official desk to read from the ''[[Kama Sutra]]'' and compose a [[prose poem]], ''Ce e clitorisul și ce vrea el!'' ("What the Clitoris Is and Wants!").<ref>Florin Constantinescu, "'La al XII-lea Congres trebuia să iau locul lui Ceaușescu' — interviu cu d-l Ion Iliescu", in ''[[Convorbiri Literare]]'', January 1991, p. ii</ref> Voican's eccentricities and esoteric interests were the subject of public scrutiny and mockery. Journalist Pál Bodor, who met him for an interview in January 1990, was intrigued by the "white-bearded, forty-something giant", a "geologist who came out of nowhere" and lived at his office. Upon greeting Bodor, Voican carried "the most modern machine gun around his neck, [and] a wide [[Maramureș]] peasant leather belt around his waist, with (as I later learned) a gun in it"; his staff included Cerasela, a "strikingly beautiful" female bodyguard.<ref name="pbperén"/> In early 1991, satirist Florin Constantinescu depicted his imaginary meeting with Voican, whom he depicted as using his official desk to read from the ''[[Kama Sutra]]'' and compose a [[prose poem]], ''Ce e clitorisul și ce vrea el!'' ("What the Clitoris Is and Wants!").<ref>Florin Constantinescu, "'La al XII-lea Congres trebuia să iau locul lui Ceaușescu' — interviu cu d-l Ion Iliescu", in ''[[Convorbiri Literare]]'', January 1991, p. ii</ref>