Millionaire Gabriel Stati remains under arrest. The Chisinau Court of Appeals Friday rejected the lawyers’ application to set the businessman free, describing it as unfounded. The businessman will be under arrest until May 16. The decision of the Court is irrevocable, Info-Prim Neo reports. Stati’s lawyer Vitalie Nagacevsci said the decision was illegal. “Today’s decision was predictable given the decision of the Constitutional Court (to validate the April 5 elections, e.n.),” the lawyer said. Nagacevschi also said that immediately after he receives the resolution of the Court of Appeals, he will inform the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in the hope that it will react promptly and that the Government of Moldova will be notified about the application lodged with the Court. In such a case, Nagacevschi says, the Moldovan authorities will have to change the preventive arrest measure put on Stati. The lawyer also reiterated that the April 7 events were planned by the central authorities and recommended President Vladimir Voronin to confess to it in order to ease the task of the prosecution bodies that must find all the persons involved. Prosecutor Valeriu Bodean, who ordered that the businessmen be remanded in custody, refused to say what evidence they have collected against Stati. He said only that the information was confidential and cannot be made public. During the hearing, Gabi Stati was held in a cell in the courtroom. Before and after the hearing, he was escorted by employees of the special service Pantera, who were armed and masked. The supporters of the millionaire present in the courtroom demanded that he be released. Gabriel Stati is accused of usurpation of the state power and organization of mass disturbances. He was caught in Odessa and then extradited to the Moldovan authorities. Stati pleads not guilty and says that he did not participate in the violent protests of April 7. He says that on the arrest day he did not run away, but left for Odessa on business. Earlier, his father Anatol Stati said that by this legal case, Vladimir Voronin aims to appropriate his family’s property supposedly valued at billions of dollars.