The so-called “Ambulances dossier” has not finished, as on Monday, May 12, the juries headed by Constantin Uratu from the Centru Court of Chisinau were to proclaim the writ. The trial was attended by leader of the Moldova Noastra Alliance and former Chisinau mayor Serafim Urecheanu, his counselor Vasile Rahlea, prosecutor Alexandru Bernaz and two judges. One of them announced that the president of the jury was ill and will stay on medical leave at least the next ten days. So they decided to postpone the proclamation of the decision on May 26, Info-Prim Neo reports. Serafim Urecheanu has told journalists he is made to attend court sessions for the fifth year in a row, after buying those 40 ambulances “at a reasonable price”. There have emerged reasons to prolong the trial every now and then. The AMN leader qualifies the accusations brought to him as aberrations of the rulers ordered by Vladimir Voronin. According to Urecheanu, the head of the state would have ordered “Organize the execution” on a document addressed to certain central state and law-enforcing authorities. The anbulances trial has been heard by three teams of juries. The first stage ended on May 17, 2006, by the broadened Plenum of the Supreme Court of Justice, which obliged the prosecutor to end probing Urecheanu. Prosecutor Alexandru Bernaz opposed the decision, and the Centry Court decided to continue probing Urecheanu, setting up the first precedent in the Moldovan justice when a lower court doubts the decision of the Supreme Court. On November 19, 2007, lawyer Vasile Rahlea asked to reject the jury team chaired by Nadejda Mazur, which repeatedly heard the so-called ambulances case. The counselor reasoned his notification by the fact that the juries would have demonstrated “double standards”, partiality and would have violated the right to defense when they satisfied the request of prosecutor Alexandru Bernaz not to hear as a witness the former anti-corruption officer, Grigore Gorea, reasoning that he was a representative of the penal inquest bodies, although he was not working for two years in the police. At the same time, the lawyer noticed the authorities having intimidated the witnesses. On October 8, last year, Serafim Urecheanu said he held truthful information that the witnesses were intimidated and would have big problems if they said other things than the authorities wanted. At the same time, they cannot help saying but true things in the court, so they chose to find out reasons not to participate in the sessions. At the last sitting of April 25, prosecutor Alexandru Bernaz stated in his plea that the former mayor was guilty of power abuse conducting to public damages. He said Urecheanu had not negotiated a lower price in buying those 40 ambulances from the company Rumeon. According to the prosecutor, as there was no epidemic, or calamity, there was no urgent need to buy the ambulances and they had a price in the customs offices, while Rumeon sold them at a higher price. At the same time, Bernaz stated the dossier was not a political order, as it is believed. The prosecutor severely criticized the writ of the Supreme Court of Justice of 17 May, 2006, which released Urecheanu from criminal probe, maintaining the court neglected the multitude of evidence about committing the infraction. Alexandru Bernaz asked the the Centru Court for 9 years of jail for the former mayor. In his turn, lawyer Vasile Rahlea has said Serafim Urecheanu is absolutely innocent and demanded to release him from penal inquest, as it has no evidence to prove he had brought damages of 3 million lei to the municipal budget. On the contrary, through his agreement with the Rumeon manager, the ambulances were bought not in leasing, but in installments, thus saving more than 4 million lei. The fact, that Rumeon agreed to get the money in installments, proves there were negotiations, says the lawyer. According to him, all the Communist councilors confirmed in the court they had entitled the mayor to buy 40 ambulances. Vasile Rahlea has said the prosecutor referred to witnesses in other trials in his plea, what is illegal, and that the investigators committed a number of irregularities, what is confirmed by the statements of the former Anti-Corruption investigator Grigore Gorea. Rahlea has reiterated the accusation is biased and based on political reasons.