The aching chief prosecutor of the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office ordered to annul the ordinance not to take legal action in the case of the expulsion of Turkish teachers against suspended prosecutor general Alexandr Stoianoglo, which was made by the prosecutor designated by the Superior Council of Prosecutors Andrei Balan, IPN reports.
According to the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office, examining the complaint submitted by ex-MP Inga Grigoriu, the aching chief prosecutor of the Office decided to annul the ordinance not to take legal action made by Andrei Balan on December 22, 2021.
Prosecutor Andrei Balan was entrusted by the Superior Council of Prosecutors with the task of examining former MP Inga Grigoriu’s complaint about the allegedly illegal actions of the suspended prosecutor general Alexandr Stoianoglo, who supposedly interfered in the investigation of the case of the expulsion of Turkish teachers.
Inga Grigoriu said that it goes to the defective investigation of a high-profile case – the expulsion of Turkish teachers who had permanent residence in the Republic of Moldova. The goal was to illegally take the teachers out of the country using the financial resources of the state in the interests of a foreign state, as the ECHR ascertained by its judgment of June 2019. Also, the former director of the Security and Intelligence Service was arbitrarily exonerated of legal responsibility for his deeds.
The seven foreign citizens, who worked as teachers and managers at “Orizont” Lyceum, were declared undesirable and were expelled from Moldova on September 6, 2018. The expelled citizens were condemned in Turkey. On June 11, 2019, the European Court of Human Rights ascertained that the Republic of Moldova violated the rights of the seven Turkish teachers and obliged the state to pay by €25,000 to five of them.
Former SIS director Vasile Botnari was given a suspended sentence, being fined 88,000 lei.
In three years of the expulsion of the Turkish teachers, the case hasn’t been declassified even if the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe recommended the Moldovan authorities to do so.
