Centru Court maintains distraint on two apartments owned by Chisinau administration

The Centru Court rejected the application filed by the Chisinau City Hall, asking that the distraint put on two apartments from a block under construction located on Liviu Deleanu Street, which are intended for internally displaced people, be cancelled. The apartments were sequestrated because the local administration did not implement 188 court decisions, Info-Prim Neo reports. Petru Leu, the representative of the City Hall and the head of the legal division of the General Housing-Communal Department, said that they would sue the decision of the Centru Court to the Court of Appeals. He said that the hearing was held despite numerous requests from the City Hall. The judge upheld the decision of the Centru Office of the Ministry of Justice’ Enforcement Department without offering explanations. “The norms of the property law are flagrantly violated because Moldova’s Executive Code stipulates that the property of the local public administration cannot be sequestrated. The assets belong to everyone and cannot be sequestrated. It is a blatant violation of the law and interference by the legal power in the local executive power,” the City Hall’s representative said. According to Petru Leu, the court also ordered that the City Hall provide a three-room apartment in the block located on Liviu Deleanu Street to a 23-year-old employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. He said that the list of the Ministry’s employees who must be provided with apartments by the municipal authorities is compiled by the Ministry of Justice, expressing indignation at the way that the priorities are set out. “There are employees of the Ministry of the Interior, teachers and poor people that have been waiting for years to receive homes, but the apartments are offered to young persons dressed in expensive clothes that file applications to get the apartment privatized in 1-2 weeks after they receive them,” said Petru Leu, who is also a member of the privatization commission. “The apartments are distributed randomly. There is not control and regulations for distributing the apartments. This is a legal shortcoming because the lists of those that receive apartments by court decision are drawn up at random,” Petru Leu stressed. “The court decision shouldn’t have been pronounced because we (the Chisinau administration e.n.) appealed against a decision of the Ministry of Justice’ Enforcement Department that obliges use to allocate apartments, and the court has not yet passed judgment on this case, he said. The judge that investigated the case, Angela Catana, has told Info-Prim Neo that the sides were provided with copies of the court decision, with motivation in written form. She avoided saying why the applications lodged by the representative of the City Hall were rejected. The representative of the Centru Office of the Ministry of Justice’ Enforcement Department could not be found for comments.