Lawyer Ilie Rotaru, who is a candidate for the post of prosecutor general, said that the composition of the selection commission should be changed. He said that Head of Parliament Marian Lupu, who decided to create the commission, must intervene now if he wants it to be credible, IPN reports.
Ilie Rotaru told a news conference the commission consists of four current prosecutors and a former prosecutor and this is not right as the inferiors choose their superior. “The commission should include lawmakers, representatives of civil society, and journalists, not yet prosecutors,” said Ilie Rotaru.
Initially, Ilie Rotaru’s application was rejected as improper. After he challenged the first decision of the commission, the lawyer was accepted to the next stage of the contest. The candidate said that if he is elected as prosecutor general, he will implement a strict program in order to eliminate the violations from the system. He considers that the prosecutors are the first who break the law. Moreover, 80% of all the criminal cases started are fabricated.
According to the lawyer, more than 30,000 criminal cases are started in Moldova annually, but only 9,000 are sent to court. “In order to earn money, they fabricate all kinds of cases,” said the candidate.
In the news conference, Ilie Rotaru was accompanied by two persons who said that they suffered because of the illegal acts of the prosecutors. Former policeman Oleg Chirvas said that he served one year in prison for swindle after a state functionary fabricated evidence against him. Afterward, he was acquitted. Abu Aziz, who presented himself as a citizen of the U.S. and Israel, said that he came to Moldova in 2011 after he got acquitted with a Moldovan woman over the Internet. In 2012, he was arrested, ill-treated and threatened by police officers, while his parents in the U.S. were phoned from Moldova and told to pay money if they wanted their son to remain alive.
