Municipal councilors welcomed Vladimir Sarban’s return to Mayoralty

The return of Vladimir Sarban to his office as Municipal Secretary of Chisinau, after more than a year and a half of inactivity due to the period of investigation, detention, and lawsuit, was welcomed by the majority of the Municipal Councilors. The leader of “Moldova Noastra” Alliance faction, Pavel Caba said on behalf of his colleagues that he was glad that Vladimir Sarban is back to his workplace. AMN always considered that the decision to dismiss him was illegal, declared Caba. According to the leader of AMN, Chisinau Municipal Council has felt the lack of Vladimir Sarban as a professional, because at present the quality of some draft decisions is poor. The chairman of PPCD faction, Alexandru Corduneanu said that the return of Sarban is an effect of the reform that occurred in the legal system due to those 10 points presented by PPCD to the present government. “I think that is a good thing both for Chisinau and Moldova”, declared Corduneanu. Solicited by the press in the same regard, the communist councilor Grigore Myra, mentioned that the Council was informed about the decision and because the decision of the Court is irrevocable CMC conformed to it, Myra said. At the same time the interim Mayor of Chisinau, Vasile Ursu was unpleased with the question addressed by the journalists, accusing them that they want to turn this case into a political one. “At last, the decision of the court cancelled the suspension from office of his activity and Vladimir Sarban resumed his activity in the Mayoralty”, declared Ursu. On Wednesday, June 7, the Court of Chisinau’s Centru district, decided irrevocably to reinstate Vladimir Sarban in the position of Municipal Secretary. The secretary of Chisinau Municipal Council (CMC) Vladimir Sarban was arrested in November 2004 shortly before the electoral campaign for the Parliamentary elections. Sarban is accused of having changed the decision of CMC from November 12, 2002 on purchasing 40 ambulances, introducing deliberately the words “… and signing the contract” with the aim to offer supplementary rights to the General Mayor of Chisinau, Serafim Urechean. Sarban pleads not guilty and declares that the lawsuit has political subtext. The Republic of Moldova was sentenced by the European Court for Human Rights (ECHR), on October 4, 2005 in the case „Sarban vs Moldova”, for braking 3 articles from the European Convention of Human Rights, referring to „interdiction of torture, „Right to freedom and safety” and „Right to private and family life.