MoldATSA director considers legal system continues to be influenced by people from old government

A group of employees of the air traffic services authority MoldATSA held a news conference to attract the authorities' attention to the wrongs committed against director general Valerian Vartic, Info-Prim Neo reports. Last spring, the court of Botanica district sentenced Valerian Vartic to 10 years ' imprisonment for abuse of power. He was accused of misusing more than 660,000 lei after signing a contract with a medical institution that provided dental services to the company's employees during five years. Roman Toporov, the president of the trade union committee of MoldATSA, informed that Valerian Vartic was later released but the Prosecutor's Office appealed the decision passed by the Botanica court. “In September 2009, the Supreme Court of Justice passed another judgment. Vartic was given five years' probation and deprived of the right to hold executive posts,” Toporov said. The company's trade unions that include about 300 employees do not accept such a decision and demand that the manager is reinstated. In the same conference, Valerian Vartic said the founders of the company that he manages have no objections and did not oppose the allocation of money for treating the employees. “However, the Prosecutor's Office says I caused damage. But I do not understand who I caused damage to.” Valerian Vartic is convinced that it was a kind of settling of accounts as he refused to satisfy a number of requests made by the former government. “I was asked to transfer 107,000 lei to an account for financing the concert given by the Russian group Alexandrov. I refused as I considered it was indirect financing for a political party. Also, I asked the court to examine a case of appropriation involving four employees of the company. But the given persons hurried to join the Communists Party and received thus protection from the PCRM,” he said. Vartic considers that his case can be solved by the European Court, but he still hopes justice will be made to him at home. “I trust the present administration and hope they will make changes in the legal system, which continues to be influenced by people from the former government,” he said.