MIHAI GHIMPU CONGRATULATES HIS NEPHEW AND PARTY DEPUTY ON HIS 40TH BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY

Liberal Party Chairman MP Mihai Ghimpu has today congratulated his beloved nephew and LP First Deputy Chairperson, ex-Mayor of Chisinau Dorin Chirtoaca on the occasion of his 40th birthday anniversary.

Ghimpu wrote in the social networks this morning that together with Dorin, millions of other babies came to this world on that August 9, some of whom achieved much in their lives, “but really very few people, if any at all, managed to become the mayor of a city with a population of nearly a million at an age of 28”.

The uncle is convinced that all the 11 years of Dorin’s mayorship, Chisinau was steadily approaching the standards of a European capital city, “and all you were doing was done with love to people, to the city and the nation. But your activities brought you more enemies than the number of problems Chisinau has”.

“Nevertheless, Dorin Chirtoaca and the Liberal Party must and shall overcome all hardships for the sake of advancing along the European and Romanian path of the republic’s development”, wrote Mihai Ghimpu.

As was already reported by Infotag, Chisinau Mayor Dorin Chirtoaca was arrested by the National Anti-Corruption Center (NACC) officers on May 25, 2017 on suspicion of gaining interest from a project of building a network of parking lots in the city. Together with him, the investigation then involved 10 more suspects from among his surrounding and business partners.

According to the NACC, as a result of collusion between Chisinau City Hall officials, the tender for the building of the said parking lots was won by an Austro-Hungarian company with a dubious reputation – EME Parkleitsystem GmbH. For involvement in that affair, the law enforcement detained also Chisinau Deputy Mayor Nistor Grozavu [delegated to the Chisinau City Hall on the quota of Chirtoaca’s Liberal Party] and Chisinau Municipal Public Transport Department Director Igor Gamretchi. Sources in the Prosecution service are saying that the two latter gentlemen agreed to give evidence against their city boss and party comrade.

Subsequently, one more litigation was started against Chirtoaca on suspicion of abusing office: he signed orders to issue compensations from the municipal budget for providing housing to some judges and prosecutors.

In July 2017, Dorin Chirtoaca, who was under investigation then, was suspended as Chisinau Mayor “for the investigation period”. In August, he was placed under a recognizance not to leave. Presently he is under the judicial review. And on February 16, 2018 he tendered resignation from the Mayor’s post.