After MP Sergiu Litvinenco, chairman of the Parliament’s Legal Commission, posted on Facebook that MPs Alexandru Slusari, Igor Grosu and Vlad Bătrîncea filed a motion on the nomination of Dumitru Robu, Chisinau’s Deputy Chief Prosecutor, as Acting Prosecutor General the Parliament Secretariat on July 27, Parliament on July 30 decided to propose this candidate to the President and Igor Dodon the same day signed the decree to appoint this.
Media nongovernmental organizations seek the resignation of the president of the Competition Council and demand that the members of the Council’s board should be dismissed for not reacting to the public signals concerning the violation of the Competition Law, which favored the distortion of the advertising market. The signatory NGOs request Parliament to hasten the adoption of the new draft law on advertising that was worked out by civil society experts and to supplement the Competition Law with provisions that would remove the danger of appearance of new monopoles on the mass media and advertising markets.
The former president of the Democratic Party Vladimir Plahotniuc announced his resignation as Member of Parliament. Vladimir Plahotniuc said he hopes that his decision to give up the legal immunity that comes with the MP seat will put an end to the “abuse and political pressure against the law enforcement bodies.” He went on to accuse the current government of politicizing institutions and of allowing Moscow to take control of key agencies in Moldova. Shortly after his Democratic Party was ousted from government in June, Vladimir Plahotniuc resigned as its president and left the country fearing for his and his family’s safety.
The Ministry of the Interior has launched a national and international manhunt for MP Ilan Shor after the Cahul Court of Appeals on July 25 declared him a fugitive from justice. In June 2017, Ilan Shor was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison for his role in the $1B bank fraud. The sentence was challenged in the Appeals Court and Shor was freed from house arrest on bail until a definitive sentence. In February 2018, the case was moved to the Cahul Appeals Court and a final judgement hasn’t been passed yet. About a month ago Ilan Shor reportedly sneaked out of the country in breach of his bail conditions.
Businessman Veaceslav Platon, who got 30 years in jail in two criminal cases, said the US$ 22 billion that was allegedly laundered through the Moldovan banking and legal systems didn’t represent a laundromat as dirty money wasn’t laundered, but was legalized and no one pursued a laundering goal. These operations were legal. Moldindconbank, in which he played a particular role in that period, provided legal services for receiving and transferring this money, daily informing the competent state institutions about the given transactions. His extradition from Ukraine occurred under the personal control of the former President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, at the request of then ex-leader of the Democratic Party Vlad Plahotniuc. Throughout the process, the legal norms were violated and documents that allowed him to get a Ukrainian passport were removed from the file so as to later declare that he obtained the nationality illegally.
In an article for IPN, publicist from Comrat Veaceslav Craciun centers on Bashkan Irina Vlah’s proposal to amend the Law on the Prosecution Service so as to increase the influence of the People’s Assembly of Gagauz-Yeri (APG-Y) in the process of appointing the prosecutor of the ATU. He noted the strengthening of the ATU’s powers in naming the prosecutor wasn’t part of the electoral promises made by candidate for governor of Gagauzia Irina Vlah. However, namely this bill became her first political initiative after starting her second term in office. According to the explicative note attached to the bill, the initiative is necessary because the powers of the ATU defined in the Law on the Special Legal Status of Gagauz –Yeri weren’t taken into account in the Law on the Prosecution Service that was adopted by Parliament in 2016.
Former president of the Constitutional Court (CC) Dumitru Pulbere in a special edition on NTV Moldova channel said the text of the Constitution is fundamental and well-planned. The Supreme Law could not envision everything, but the people who drafted the Constitution could not imagine that the CC and other institutions would ever abuse the law to such an extent and adopt particular decisions. “Why do I say abuse of the law? Because the Constitutional Court was the initiator of the suspension of the President from office for five minutes. Parliament, instead of criticizing the CC, applauded and rejoiced itself and this could have been done to adopt a decision that suited someone,” the ex-CC president stated.
According to the Democratic Party of Moldova, all the speculations made in the public sphere, according to which the Democratic Party could be outlawed, are aimed at discrediting the party and at exerting pressure on the local elected officials so that these leave the PDM. Ex-Premier Ion Sturza, who is one of the founders of the Democratic Party, considers the PDM should disappear. “After the developments witnessed around this party, this grouping that caused so much hate in our society should vanish,” stated the former PM.
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