The Prosecutor General’s Office (PGO) will ask the Supreme Court of Justice to transfer the case of the suspended chief of the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office Viorel Morari to another court. In a press release, the institution said the examination of the case revealed major problems in the judicial system, IPN reports.

The PGO noted that when the case was sent to court, this was distributed randomly to a judge who ordered to arrange the preliminary hearing. This way, all the approaches in this case were to be made to court through the agency of this judge. But the vice president of the Chisinau City Court Dorin Dulghieru, without being court president as the law requires, examined the application of a lawyer of Viorel Morari and ordered to constitute a panel of three judges that included a judge chosen randomly and another two judges who were selected discretionarily, as the PGO considers.

The PGO notified the acting president of the Chisinau City Court of this and was informed that vice president Dorin Dulghieru was authorized to form the panel of judges by an order made by the court’s president.

Given the particularities of this case and its impact on society, the PGO requests that the case should be examined by a judge or by a panel of judged consisting of randomly chosen judges and should be transferred to another court as the judge selected randomly had a separate opinion on this case, while the other two judges decided to release Viorel Morari from remand detention and place him under judiciary control.

In the first meeting of the Supreme Security Council, the prosecutor general will present information about the identified problems and will demand that these should be removed. The PGO will also ask the Council’s Judicial Inspectorate to examine the actions of Dorin Dulghieru.

The PGO noted it cannot challenge the February 14 decision to place Viorel Morari under judicial control as the judgment of the first court or of the appeals court cannot be appealed to a higher court.