Moldovan justice is controlled by the private sector, including the banking one, secretary general of the President’s staff Ion Paduraru, ex-minister of justice, said in the program “Public eye” on “Noroc TV” channel, IPN reports.
According to Ion Paduraru, the private sector, especially the banking one, uses the Moldovan judges to achieve particular goals by paying fabulous amounts of money to them. An example is the criminal scheme to launder US$18 billion from Russia, which involved judges of Causeni and Chisinau courts.
Ion Paduraru noted that the Moldovan judges pronounced decisions by which Russian companies were obliged to pay back millions of dollars to Moldovan citizens selected at random. “I’m sure that no large Russian company will implement such a decision, even if it’s taken by tens of Moldovan judges. It’s clear that our judges were used in criminal schemes. A question appears here: Didn’t these judges ask themselves how these ordinary Moldovans became creditors of important Russian companies?,” wondered the former minister of justice.
He expressed his indignation at the fact that these judges weren’t at least dismissed at a time when they had to mete out severe punishment and blamed the Supreme Council of Magistrates for such a state of affairs.
Making reference to Prime Minister Iurie Leanca’s intention to invite a mission of European judges to Moldova to monitor the work of the judiciary, Ion Paduraru said this initiative will not produce the expected results and this mission should better train judicial inspectors. “The foreign judges will be unable to influence the judgments passed by our judges, who will anyway deliberate behind closed doors. It’s something different when a judicial inspector discovers an illegality for which the judge must be held accountable,” he explained.
