The subject of the creation of an anticorruption court will be discussed this week on the parliamentary platform. Parliament Speaker Igor Grosu said the given court will examine cases of grand corruption on an alert regime so as to no longer allow delays in the trying of cases. The judges of the new court will benefit from protection, social guarantees and motivating salaries for taking impartial decisions, in accordance with the law, IPN reports.
The concept concerning the creation of an anticorruption institution was designed by the Presidential Office and was submitted to Parliament for consideration. According to this, the court will have up to 15 judges chosen at a contest by the Supreme Council of Magistracy (SCM) based on merit and on experience and will be named, including by transfer, by the President of the Republic of Moldova. The judges of the anticorruption court will be appointed for a five-year term and will have salaries similar to those of the judges of the Supreme Court of Justice (about 45,000 lei). As additional guarantees, the judges will benefit from state guard on request and from company apartments, in the case of those who are not from Chisinau.
“The creation of the Anticorruption Court will be discussed this week. We saw all kinds of arguments. The Prosecutor’s Office and the courts of law say that they are overburdened with thousands of cases. The solution we propose is to have an anticorruption court dedicated to cases of grand corruption. This will deal with the most serious and difficult cases transferred from the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office. We will offer all the financial support, protection, social guarantees so as to be able to tell them: You have everything you need and just do your job! Without delays, without interminable trails,” Igor Grosu stated in the program “Emphasis on Today” on TVR Moldova channel.
The extraordinary assessment of judges and prosecutors will continue even if there are system elements that oppose the reformation process. “There will be resistance, but it no longer scares us or surprises us. Anyway, they realized that we will not stop. We saw resistance at the Supreme Court of Justice. We also saw resistance through the unsuccessful attempt made by the General Assembly of Prosecutors. I address all those from the system and tell them that the process does not stop. A return would mean repeating of cataclysms and tragedies in society. The process is irreversible. In the September 7 meeting, we voted in two more SCM members from among civil society. We hope the assessment commission will repeatedly examine, as the SCJ decided, the files of those who challenged the decision. We resisted up to now and will resist further,” stated the Speaker.
The General Assembly of Prosecutors which was convened for August 23 was to choose members for the Superior Council of Prosecutors and substitutes, but the meeting was put off until the decisions referring to the candidates who won the case at the Supreme Court of Justice are pronounced. The pre-vetting commission is to examine again the candidates who failed the testing.
