Nicolae Besedovski, who took part in the Nistru armed conflict, said during 11 years he has been discriminated and his ownership right has been violated owing to corruption in the customs system. In 2005 he was deprived of a car that he brought from the Netherlands and this wasn’t yet given back to him.
In a news conference at IPN, Nicolae Besedovski said that in 2005, when he crossed the state border through the Cahul customs post, customs officers asked for €1,800 bribe from him for having his car cleared, invoking that the vehicle was older than ten years and the law banned the import of such cars. The vehicle he brought from the Netherlands was made in 1995 and it hadn’t turned ten at that moment yet. He refused to give bribe and was thus deprived of the car even if there was no reason for doing so.
Nicolae Besedovski went to court. According to him, the Appeals Court accepted the verbal declaration of the customs functionaries, who said that the car was made in 1994, ignoring the documents showing that the production year was 1995. The Supreme Court of Justice rejected the appeal and passed an irrevocable decision by which the production year of the car was declared 1994.
Nicolae Besedovski said he went again to court and in 2013 the Appeals Court accepted the documents showing that the car was made in 1995, as an irrevocable decision of the Supreme Court of Justice confirmed this later. Thus, there were two conflicting irrevocable decisions on the same issue. The man notified the Parliament’s legal commission and the answer he got was that the national legislation does not contain provisions about two irrevocable decisions and how these can be reviewed.
