A new court hearing in the case of Chisinau’s suspended mayor Dorin Chirtoaca scheduled for Monday was postponed for procedural reasons.
The hearing was postponed after prosecutor Dumitru Robu petitioned the court that the defense’s two requests for review be heard not by an investigative judge, but by a court of first instance.
Dorin Chirtoaca criticized the move as an attempt by the prosecution to sabotage his two requests for review, one challenging the removal of the lawyers Tatiana Iovu and Gheorghe Malic, and another one challenging the initiation of criminal proceedings altogether.
Chirtoaca was arrested on May 25 in a case concerning parking spaces to be operated as part of what seemed to be an illegal scheme. The mayor has been charged with accepting bribes and influencing decisions for undue gains. Dorin Chirtoaca pleads not guilty.
