PAS MP Lilian Carp requested acting prosecutor general Dumitru Robu to take legal action over a reasonable suspicion of usurpation of state power committed by an organized criminal group. He asked to examine his request as a matter of urgency and to hold those to blame accountable, IPN reports.

In a press briefing, Lilian Carp said he refers to the ex-MPs who left the parliamentary group of the Party of Communists and also to those who left the Liberal Democratic Party of Moldova and the Liberal Party as part of “the plan to usurp the state power in the interests of an organized criminal group of Vladimir Plahotniuc”.

In accordance with the Constitution, the usurpation of state power is the most serious crime against the people. “It can be this way concluded that the investigated persons, including those who are to be investigated, directly contributed to the usurpation of state power by creating a parliamentary majority by methods of corruption, exertion of influence and blackmail, which led to unjust enrichment,” stated the MP.

Four ex-MPs were arrested on suspicion that they corrupted other members of Moldova’s Parliament. According to the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office, besides unjust enrichment of which they were accused earlier, the former MPs were also charged with corruption of mates in November-December 2015 for making them leave the parliamentary group of which they formed part and vote for the bills proposed by the then parliamentary majority. Three of the suspected MPs are in preventive detention, while one is under house arrest over unjust enrichment charges.