The extraparliamentary opposition says the unjust enrichment case started against former MPs generates suspicions about the impartiality of prosecutors. The acting president of the Party “Dignity and Truth Platform” said the actions of the prosecutors reveal the phenomenon of selective justice that was so frequently met during the former governments. For their part, representatives of PAS said the case of the ex-MPs should be analyzed also through the angle of usurpation of state power. According to the ruling party, party switching was organized with the aim of ensuring one person’s control over al the state institutions, IPN reports.

The acting president of PPPDA Dinu Plîngău said the case of the ex-MPs who defected from their parliamentary groups to another leaves room for interpretations. The politician wonders why similar actions are not taken with regard to the former Lib-Dems who joined the team of PDM, securing a comfortable parliamentary majority for this.

“I welcome the actions taken by prosecutors, but I have some questions that need to be answered. Why only the Communists? They say that more members of PLDM allowed to be bought at much larger sums than those from PCRM. The point is some of the turncoats from PLDM continue to hold important state posts and the prosecutors should knock at their door the first as these hold state posts. This is elective justice,” Dinu Plîngău stated in the talk show “In Depth” on ProTV Chisinau channel.

PAS MP Lilian Carp said the presupposed bribing of the Communist MPs for joining the team of PDM was aimed at usurping state power and those involved should be penalized for this too.

“This case started over unjust enrichment does not embrace the complexity of this problem as they bought MPs not for a particular type of services, but for enabling an individual to usurp the power in the state. We will demand that the Prosecutor’s Office should consider this problem more extensively and should hold accountable not only those who were arrested, but all those who defected. We should not neglect the fact that some of those who left probably did it not for money, but out of fear or because they were persuaded. But the largest part left for money,” stated Lilian Carp.

On February 4, five former MPs accused of unjust enrichment were remanded in custody. Vladimir Vitiuc, Anatolie Zagorodnyi, Artur Reshetnikov and Sergiu Sîrbu were placed under arrest for 30 days, while Violeta Ivanov for 20 days.