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PROSECUTION SYSTEM REMAINS UNDER POLITICAL CONTROL

05 november, 2014
PROSECUTION SYSTEM REMAINS UNDER POLITICAL CONTROL Lawyers Anatol Stepuleac and Iulian Rusanovschi said at the Wednesday’s press conference at Infotag that the “judicial system reform is skidding while the Prosecution remains under the control of certain political parties”.

 

Lawyers presented to journalists a plenty of documents, demonstrating the opening of criminal cases made to order during the Moldovan Communist Party (MCP) rule.

 

“Vladimir Voronin, who was both President and Chairman of the Communist Party, was ordering against whom and what kind of cases to open. The prosecutors were implicitly carrying out his instructions. Despite the fact that the power has changed, the situation in the Prosecution remained the same. We have managed back in 2009 to prove in court the innocence on a series of accusations. The court directed an acquittal, but the newspaper “Communist” even did not agree to fully refute false information, published there by Voronin’s order”, said Stepuleac.

 

He noted that the court has recognized that “prosecutors were based not on facts and proofs, but on assumptions”.

 

“Many cases have been formally closed or reclassified. Nothing has changed in the prosecution agencies, which are being governed by the same people, appointed by the former Prosecutor General Valeriu Gurbulea. These are his relatives and friends, via whom he is still able to influence the result of any case”, said Stepuleac. He stressed that namely due to this the investigation on the loud case on riots from April 7, 2009, has ended by nothing.

 

“This case was assigned to a well-known lawyer Igor Popa, who was one of the main figures in the Vladimir Voronin’s judicial system. Long investigations completed by accusations towards Russian blogger Eduard Baghirov, who has successfully ran from Moldova, This is all the result, there are no other defendants”, said the lawyer.

 

According to him, he tried to bring to justice former President Vladimir Voronin, who “has created this vicious system”.

 

“But this decision also depends on prosecutors. We can endlessly talk about and bring proofs of illegal activity of the Prosecution. But what do we have in reality? In reality, this institution is absolutely absent as a guarantee of respecting human rights and freedoms. Citizens can not feel themselves protected by the Prosecution. On contrary, they are forced to be wary of the prosecutors’ decisions”, concluder Stepuleac.

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