Factory owner closes himself inside building and protests against appointment of another manager

The owner of a concrete and mortar factory Gheorghe Iovu has isolated himself in the plant's administrative block and protests against the Chisinau Court of Appeals' decision, whereby another person is named owner. Gheorghe Iovu's daughter Elena Iovu told a news conference on Wednesday that her father has stayed inside the building for a week and that the water and electric power supply and the telephone were cut off intentionally, Info-Prim Neo reports. Elena Iovu said that on September 9, the concrete factory located on 26 Prunului St in Chisinau was appropriated, while the personnel was drove out by the new owner Serghei Magdaliuc, who was accompanied by several armed persons. According to Elena Iovu, the new owner, former guard at the commercial bank “Comertbank”, acted in accordance with the Chisinau Court of Appeals' decision of September 4, which says that the factory belongs to Magdaliuc. Elena Iovu said that her father managed to enter the building and closed himself inside an office, saying he would go out only when the court rules that he is the only owner of the factory. During a week, the family has not known what's happening to him. “Under the decision of the Chisinau Court of Appeals, we have 10 days at the disposal to move out, but the Court's judge, Mister Arnaut does not want to show us this decision, which we intend to appeal. However, he showed it to the new owner, who entered the factory by force,” Elena Iovu said. The first attempt to deprive Gheorghe Iovu of the factory was made in 2006. But in 2008, the Chisinau Court of Appeals decided in favor of the Iovu family. “However, the so-called owners found then a legal way to the president of the Court of Justice Ion Muruianu, challenged the decision of the Court of Appeals and won the process,” the woman said. “We hope that the situation in our country will change and Mister Muruianu will leave his post so that justice is made to us,” Elena Iovu said, stressing that all the court decisions passed until present were influenced by the president of the Court of Justice. Elena Iovu also said that she recently had a meeting with the Mayor General Valeriu Gurbulea, who said that if those men do not have the right to be on the factory's territory he will order that her father is protected. But no step was taken yet. The Iovu family insists that Gheorghe Iovu is the owner of the factory, as indicated at the State Registration Chamber. Elena Iovu said that the next days she will lodge an application with the Supreme Court of Justice. If they do not obtain justice, they will appeal to the European Court of Human Rights. Elena Iovu said that her father has been pressurized since 2005, when he was threatened by a notary with a pistol and forced to sign a document showing that he donates the factory to Dumitru Postovan, a former prosecutor general of Moldova. Afterward, Postovan sold the factory to another company. Info-Prim Neo could not find the contact data of the persons mentioned by Elena Iovu in her statements at the news conference.