The Chisinau Appeals Court upheld the ordinary court’s decision by which activist Mihail Bagas was remanded in custody.

The Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office has told IPN that the appeals against the decisions concerning MPs Irina Lozovan and Alexandr Nesterovschi will be examined on Tuesday.

Mihail Bagas and MPs Alexandr Nesterovschi and Irina Lozovan were arrested on September 21 being accused of accepting illegal financing from an organized criminal group led by Ilan Shor. The Ciocana Court of Chisinau decided that Mihail Bagas will be held on remand at Penitentiary No. 13 for a period of 30 days. Alexandr Nesterovschi was also remanded in custody, while Irina Lozovan was placed under house arrest.

After the arrest, the Party “League of Towns and Communes”, which fielded Mihail Bagas for the mayoralty of Chisinau, withdrew its support for the activist.

Mihail Bagas is suspected of preparation of and complicity in illegal financing of political parties, initiative groups and election contenders in large proportions and of complicity in and instigation of money laundering committed by an organized criminal group in very large proportions. At the Appeals Court, the lawyer for the activist Aureliu Colenco said that they demanded to annul the remand detention and to replace this with a non-custodial measure. Mihail Bagas denies any wrongdoing.