Impunity is a vice that will make progress if it’s not combated. This vice hampers development, regardless of the implemented reforms, said representatives of the Association “Right to Justice”. According to them, the persons who took part in state capture and fulfilled political orders should be punished.
In a news conference at IPN, the Association’s head Pavel Grigorchuk said many of the interlopers of oligarch Vlad Plahotniuc remain unpunished in the country even if it has been over a year and a half since the latter fled the country. These are employees of law enforcement institutions and not only. They include prosecutors who formed part of an organized criminal group of oligarch Plahotniuc and who made false accusations and fabricated cases as a result of which a lot of people suffered.
“Lilian Bacalym and Roman Statnyi were champions in the fabrication of cases during the rule of Plahotniuc. And a lot of people suffered as a result. When we see how our judiciary allows Viorel Morari to remain outside custody, places Roman Statnyi under house arrest or does not see that Bacalym remains on the outside, and these people continue to benefit from luxury properties gained illegally, you evidently remain perplexed. A feeling of injustice persists among tens and hundreds of thousands of people,” stated the activist.
In the news conference, there were presented a number of cases involving the former administration of Basarabeasca district and an entrepreneur against which criminal proceedings were brought. Lawyer Eduard Rudenco said that these are tragic stories that represent only a small part of what a large number of people experienced. Dignified persons were constrained to work, to sell their goods so as “to buy justice”. With this money the prosecutors erected palaces. Things cannot be corrected if society does not insistently demand to punish those to blame.
Eduard Rudenco noted it is not right to believe that corruption was rooted out together with the leaving of Vlad Plahotniuc. The people who fulfilled the political orders of this remained in the country. “If we do not punish those who fulfilled political orders and formed part of an organized criminal group, Plahotniuc will return or another one will appear as these people cannot live in a different way. Bacalym, an individual who now aims to become a great politician, defied everything when he held the post of prosecutor. He broke the law and defied common sense and now aims to become a lawmaker. He wants to become an MP. I didn’t see greater defiance and absurdness in this country,” stated the lawyer.
