A group of dwellers living at 40 Mateevici St in Chisinau said that during four years they have witnessed a raider attack on the facilities situated in the common yard. They are subject to all kinds of acts of intimidation because they refused to sell their dwellings. Everything started after three apartments in the common yard where a number of families live were bought by the former head of the Privatization Division of the Chisinau City Hall Raisa Timofei in 2016.
In a news conference at IPN, one of the dwellers, Andrei Stavinschi, said that three families of the yard located at 40 Mateevici St refused to sell their dwellings. To make them accept to sell, ill-intentioned tenants were accommodated in the apartments that were purchased by the former functionary. These transformed the yard into a disaster. Early in the morning, individuals for several times broke the windrows of the dwellings, stole goods, soiled the walls and damaged the roof. The dwellers went to the police and over 300 reports to impose fines were compiled as a result. The fines haven’t been paid yet.
The dwellers consider decision makers of the law enforcement agencies know what is going on, but are not interested in intervening. They made approaches, but all in vain. The responsible institutions shift responsibility onto each other.
Andrei Stavinschi also said that in 2018, the former functionary sold the apartments bought earlier to her son-in-law Vasile Lesnic. The acts of intimidation continued. The new owner, in one of the apartments that has a common wall with his apartment, installed music equipment that during two years played funeral music without interruption. A number of complaints were filed, but the new owner didn’t serve the summons. The reports were drawn up in his absence and the fines remained unpaid.
The dwellers went to court and asked that the owner should evict the tenants as they regularly violate public order. The first court partially ruled in their favor, recognizing the violation of the right to neighborhood. But before the judgment was passed, the owner evicted the tenants and then brought them back when the trial was over. The dwellers went to the appeals court, but a decision hasn’t been yet taken. They consider the proceedings are delayed.
Andrei Stavinschi also said that a criminal case over falsification of documents was started against the former functionary, while her son-in-law is investigated for intentional damaging of foreign property. But the two cases stagnate.
The news conference titled “Four-year-long raider attack on yard from 40 A. Mateevici St of Chisinau municipality” forms part of the series of conferences held in the framework of IPN’s project “Injustice Revealed through Multimedia”. The project’s partner is the Lawyers Union of Moldova. IPN Agency does not assume the right to decide if the organizers of news conferences are right in the cases about which they will speak as this is the exclusive prerogative of justice, but the exaggeratedly long examination period of these cases, which is much longer than the law allows, can be considered an act of evident unfairness and injustice. IPN News Agency does not bear responsibility for the public statements made in the public sphere by the organizers of news conferences.
