The new administration of the Prosecutor General’s Office (PGO) undertook to clarify the bank fraud case that is now examined by the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office. The new acting chief of the APO is to present the materials to a working group that will study them and will later report to the state authorities, said Deputy Prosecutor General Ruslan Popov, who on December 11 was to present the PGO’s report on the bank fraud to the parliamentary commission on national security, defense and public order.
Ruslan Popov told the MPs that he can present the conclusions on a particular investigation only after he familiarizes himself with all the materials. The commission ultimately decided to give one more month for documentation, IPN reports.
“Until yesterday, the now suspended chief of the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office Viorel Morari put up resistance to this process and the prosecutors of the Prosecutor General’s Office practically didn’t have access to this file. Therefore, we cannot assume responsibility for all the information presented so far,” stated Ruslan Popov.
The PGO’s key task is to establish how the investigation was conducted, how many cases were started and how many persons were brought to justice and to determine the extent of the caused damage. According to Ruslan Popov, Viorel Morari accepted to delegate all his powers to the acting head of the APO Sergei Gavajuc.
The deputy prosecutor general also said that a chaotic investigation was carried out so far and there was no clear-cut investigation plan. The short-, medium- and long-term perspectives of the investigation group and the results of the probes into the guarantees provided in November 2014 and March 2015 are unclear.
The MPs of the ACUM bloc expressed their disappointment at the presented information, saying the new prosecutor general, who took over two weeks ago, should have asked for the materials in this case and started the investigation from the very first days.
The parliamentary commission on national security, defense and public order decided that the PGO’s report on the bank fraud must be presented in a month.
