The Council of the Great National Assembly demanded that the law enforcement bodies should publish information about the criminal cases opened against politicians and high-ranking officials within 24 hours and that the launched investigations end with the bringing to justice of the culprits. Among the enumerated politicians and functionaries are Mihai Ghimpu, Dorin Chirtoaca, Marian Lupu, Valeriu Strelet, Iurie Leanca, Vladimir Voronin, Oleg Voronin, Nicolae Timofti, Ilan Shor, Dumitru Diacov, Igor Dodon, Renato Usatyi, and Zinaida Grecheanyi, IPN reports.

The Council’s head Andrei Nastase in a news conference held in the Great National Assembly Square said that such demands were made following the revealing of information about the existence of criminal cases involving high-ranking officials, who are responsible for governance, and chiefs of opposition parties through which these are manipulated and blackmailed in the interests of clans.

“Otherwise, given that these politicians and functionaries are captive, the citizens of Moldova will continue to be hostage of this criminal regime, while the country will stagnate or will even irremediably degenerate,” stated Andrei Nastase.

He said that if the law enforcement bodies do not fulfill this request, the protesters will have to intensify and extend the demonstrations. “The Council of the Great National Assembly, given the mandate offered to it by the hundreds of thousands of protesting people and the need to satisfy the people’s demands, reminds the government that the period for giving a prompt answer as regard the real commitment to implement the people’s demands, stipulated in the Statement of October 14, expires today and it thus reserves the right to act correspondingly,” stated Nastase.

The members of the Council of the Great National Assembly said there were collected over 5,000 signatures for submitting a petition to the Prosecutor’s Office over the defrauding of the people through the agency of the power and gas charges.