The Government Agent will ask all the involved authorities to state their opinions and by September 22, which is the time limit set by the European Court of Human Rights, will present the Government’s position on the complaints submitted by the suspended prosecutor general Alexandr Stoianoglo against the Republic of Moldova.

In a press release, the Ministry of Justice said the complaints refer to procedural aspects, not to the procedure for dismissing Alexandr Stoianoglo from post. The first application refers to the deprivation of liberty following the taking of legal action against him. The second application concerns his suspension from the post of prosecutor general and the impossibility of challenging this measure.

Alexandr Stoianoglo was arrested last October and was subsequently placed under house arrest on charges of abuse of office, bribery, perjury, and facilitation of an organized criminal group. The investigation into abuse of office was completed.

In one episode, he is accused of ordering to allocate 163,900 lei in redundancy payment to prosecutor Nicolae Chitoroagă when this was dismissed even if Chitoroagă was being investigated and wasn’t entitled to such payments. The suspended prosecutor general denies any wrongdoing.

Recently, the Superior Council of Prosecutors proposed that President Maia Sandu should fire Alexandr Stoianoglo from the post of prosecutor general from which he was suspended. The Council took such a decision after familiarizing itself with the report of the expert commission that assessed Stoianoglo’s performance as “unsatisfactory”. President Sandu hasn’t yet taken a decision.