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VEACESLAV PLATON LAWYERS MAINTAIN THEIR CLIENT IS IN SERIOUS DANGER

16 february, 2017
VEACESLAV PLATON LAWYERS MAINTAIN THEIR CLIENT IS IN SERIOUS DANGER

Lawyers of entrepreneur Veaceslav Platon maintain that his life is in serious danger. Eduard Rudenco said to Infotag that during the entire period of his arrest since summer 2016, Moldovan authorities are violating his rights.

“Remember how he was brought from Kiev – by a charter plane, without court decision, in the night. Let us remind how he is being judged – in a closed regime, without press access. Besides, he was long kept in a cell in a semi-basement, in inhuman conditions. Then, he was transferred into a repaired cell. However, the new cell was with a surprise – two hidden video cameras for tracking him. Representatives of a strange armed guard [Platon is guarded by 6 to 8 people from Justice Ministry guard] are tearing out documents from his and his lawyers’ hands, they are permanently humiliating and insulting him. All these are done for one purpose – to debase him, to break his personality”, he maintained.

According to Rudenco, the administration of prison #13 decided to take from him his knife and bottle opener.

“We suppose that he refused to fulfill this absurd requirement, for which fact he was beaten. No expertise was conducted, but he has grazes on his arms. Yesterday, at a court sitting we were not prevented about an appointed lawyer participated. How can a person provide qualified assistance if the Platon’s case includes 29 volumes?”, the lawyer wondered.

He said to journalists that he addressed to all the responsible agencies with complaints.

“We insist that systematic violations are taking place in Platon’s case. But nobody listened to me in the Justice Ministry or in the Department of Penitentiary Institutions. We resort to the extreme protection measure – we demand the media and international organizations to react on the situation”, Rudenco said.

Platon’s ex-wife Svetlana said that all his relatives are receiving threats since the moment of his arrest.

“Today they were deprived of parcels from home for 2 months. By whose authority is this done? He will be eating prison food, which is a direct way to get ill. He is deprived of the right to parcel for already the second time. Almost immediately after his arrest, I and his mother, as well as Veaceslav’s current wife started to receive threats. This is complete lawlessness. Unfortunately this is the situation in the Moldovan justice and each of us may get into a similar situation”, she concludes.

According to another Platon’s lawyer – Anna Ursachi, who is temporarily in Strasbourg, the treats about a real danger to Platon’s life were sent to her back in September 2016.

“Platon is a very dangerous witness in the case on the billion, stolen from Moldovan banks. He can tell thing that is very unprofitable for the ruling coalition coordinator Vlad Plahotniuc and his entourage. Plahotniuc is by all means trying to take possession of assets that belong to Platon in Moldova. Besides, Platon is not the obedient Ilan Shor. He adheres to his own defending line”, Ursachi said, stressing that she submitted a complaint to the Strasbourg Committee for Combating and Preventing Tortures, presenting the latest events in the entrepreneur’s case.

 

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