The European Court of Human Rights communicated the two complaints filed by the suspended prosecutor general Alexandr Stoianoglo to the Government of the Republic of Moldova as a matter of urgency, IPN reports.
According to the lawyers for Alexandr Stoianoglo, the complaints refer to the persecution of Alexandr Stoianoglo according to political criteria, his illegal placing under house arrest, the restrictions on his communication with the press and on meetings and also his suspension from the post of prosecutor general. “After the documents transmitted by the ECHR are examined, we will inform society about the details of the case examined by the European Court,” said the lawyers.
Alexandr Stoianoglo was arrested last October and was subsequently placed under house arrest on charges of abuse of office, bribery, perjury, and facilitation of an organized criminal group. The investigation into abuse of office was completed.
In one episode, he is accused of ordering to allocate 163,900 lei in redundancy payment to prosecutor Nicolae Chitoroagă when this was dismissed even if Chitoroagă was being investigated and wasn’t entitled to such payments. The suspended prosecutor general denies any wrongdoing.
Recently, the Superior Council of Prosecutors proposed that President Maia Sandu should fire Alexandr Stoianoglo from the post of prosecutor general from which he was suspended. The Council took such a decision after familiarizing itself with the report of the expert commission that assessed Stoianoglo’s performance as “unsatisfactory”. President Sandu hasn’t yet taken a decision.
