Constantin Botnari was summoned to a hearing as the accused and was placed in remand detention in absentia. As he didn’t show up, he was put on the wanted list. He is investigated by prosecutors of the Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime and Special Cases (PCCOCS) for abuse of office and incitement to forging of official documents committed in June 2019 on the instruction of citizen Vladimir Plahotniuc, for illegally obtaining identity cards and passports for persons close to Plahotniuc, IPN reports, quoting PCCOCS.
In this case, the accused Constantin Botnari was earlier summoned to a hearing for being placed under arrest. The accused asked to postpone the hearing for being able to attend this physically. His lawyers submitted an application and this was accepted by court. A new hearing was set for January 17, 2022.
A month ago, PCCOCS formulated a new charge against Vladimir Plahotniuc in a case concerning abuse of office and falsification of official documents and put on the wanted list an MP of the tenth legislature affiliated with Plahotniuc (Constantin Botnari, e.n.) The two were accused of complicity in abuse of office and inciting of the former director of the Public Services Agency to forging of official documents in June 2019.
More exactly, on Vladimir Plahotniuc’s instruction, the affiliated MP used the authority he had at that moment to obtain identity cards and passports, in breach of the law, for persons close to Vladimir Plahotniuc. The documents were made in the absence of the applicants and without the signatures of these and also without taking their fingerprints and photos. The identification papers were issued the same day.
In a video, Constantin Bornari recently said that in 2019 he emigrated with his family to the UK and the fact that he is being searched through Interpol astonished him. He noted that through the agency of his lawyers, he made a request for a commission rogatory for being investigated in the UK. Constantin Botnari opined that these are actions taken by his former political opponents who are now in power.
