The position of Prosecutor General was sold for €2M back in 2009, when Valeriu Zubco was appointed to the job, claims the former ex-prime minister Vlad Filat in his first ever prison interview.
According to Filat, Zubco’s candidacy was nominally proposed by Serafim Urechean, president of the now defunct AMN party, but he new Zubco was in fact Vlad Plahotniuc’s man.
In his interview with TV8, the former PLDM leader recalled a 2009 late night visit at his place by the AMN lawmakers Veceaslav Untilă and Veceaslav Platon, ahead of a Parliament sitting the next day. They told him that Urechean was selling his right to propose a PG candidate for €2M, and that Plahotniuc was buying the position for Valeriu Zubco, the brother-in-law of the Democrat Ghenadie Sajin, a move they tried to oppose.
“After meeting with them, I phoned the American Ambassador. We could talk at very late or very early hours if there was any emergency. I broke the news to him. He said this was very serious, but in the end it was for us (within the coalition) to sort it out,” said Filat.
Valeriu Zubco was confirmed by Parliament in October 2009, and in January 2013 he resigned after being accused of trying to cover up the fatal wounding of a man during a hunting party in which the Prosecutor General participated alongside other influential people.
