​QUESTIONS MOUNTING AROUND THE PROBLEM OF PREMIER GABURICI’S EDUCATION DOCUMENTS – LP PARLIAMENTARIAN

Liberal Party Deputy Chairman Valeriu Munteanu is maintaining that the problem of Premier Gaburici’s education documents is causing more and more questions.

Munteanu published on his page in the social networks a Xerox copy of the official answer sent to him by Minister of Education Maia Sandu in reply to his parliamentary inquiry on the issue. Maia Sandu wrote that the ministry cannot answer when, where and how Chiril Gaburici received his secondary education, on whose basis he became a student of Moldovan Academy of Economic Studies (ASEM) in 1995.

“We addressed ASEM and were told there that last March 24 his documents were withdrawn by the MoI General Police Inspectorate within the criminal litigation initiated on the case of the diploma of bachelor Chiril Gaburici, which document bears signs of forgery”, Minister Sandu wrote, adding that “in the Ministry’s opinion, there exists no such diploma at all”.

Maia Sandu wrote that the Ministry of Education disposes of information that Chiril Gaburici was enlisted to Slavonic University of Chisinau on the basis of documents certifying that in 1995-1999 he received education at ASEM, but the documents from the Academy certified that student Gaburici was expelled from ASEM in 1997.

“To clarify the situation, on March 26, 2015 the Ministry of Education addressed to the Moldovan Prosecutor General with a request to investigate into all these discrepancies”, Minister Sandy wrote in her official reply to the deputy’s inquiry.

Answering the question on the baccalaureate exams, which Chiril Gaburici was supposed to pass in 1995, Maia Sandu wrote that he was included into the list of candidates for the exams at Chisinau College of Microelectronics and Computer Technologies. According to the information presented, Gaburici passed successfully his exams in Romanian (written and oral) and mathematics (written) but did not show up at exams in mathematics (oral) and in English.

Now, with the Ministry of Education’s reply in hands, MP Valeriu Munteanu addressed officially to Liberal Democratic Party Chairman Vlad Filat, asking him to clarify this situation.

In his inquiry, Valeriu Munteanu wrote, “The actions by the Ministry of the Interior, which withdrew from ASEM Gaburici’s education documents, resemble the practices used in the former Soviet Union”.

“It is your responsibility and your duty of the chairman of the party that has nominated this candidacy for prime minister to immediately pour light on Mr. Gaburici’s education question. I guess you have already understood that besides the moral aspect of this whole affair, there are also obvious signs of a crime”, Munteanu wrote in his inquiry to Filat.

Earlier this month, the governmental press service reported that the CV, officially presented by the prime minister, “contains all necessary data on the education received by him”, and that “in that period of time, Moldovan higher educational institutions used to enlist students without baccalaureate diplomas, too”.

That latter statement caused even more questions because judging by the CV, at the moment of Gaburici’s entering the University, he did not have documents certifying his graduation from a secondary school or a lyceum.