Residents of Micauti village and economic agent represented by son of communist MP have been in conflict for six years

The residents of Micauti village in Straseni district and the joint stock company Micauti Quarry have been in dispute for more than six years. Both the local councillors and the population complain about abuses against the village residents committed by the central authorities. The local councillor Lazar Volosciuc told Info-Prim Neo that the digging works carried out during the past two-three weeks on the greenway, which separates the quarry from the settlement and from the agricultural land, have led to the deterioration of about 80 houses and can cause landslides of the land nearby. On Thursday, July 5, all the 13 local councillors went to the place and asked the administration of the quarry to present the documents required for the initiated works. They are ready to wait all the day long, though they are sure that the digging works are illegal and constitute an abuse by the majority shareholder Dumitru Iovv, who is the son of the communist MP Vasile Iovv. Moreover, the local councillors said they are intimidated by the police and by the district Prosecutor’s Office, which threatened them with persecution if they did not stop sabotaging the activity of the quarry, the cited source said. The local authorities in Micauti have been in litigation for four years with the economic agent. Lazar Volosciuc says that all the courts ruled in favour of the residents. But the Supreme Court of Justice sent the case for re-examination to the first court. The local authorities sued the economic agents because they cannot take back the public property lands that were earlier exploited by the Micauti Quarry, which are full of hollows, and reintroduce them in the agricultural circuit. According to Volosciuc, under the law, the hollows should be plugged with fertile soil by the ones that dug out minerals. The local councillors of Micauti are decided to take action to solve the conflict, though they are convinced that the problem will be fixed legally only after the Communist Party is removed from power. The Info-Prim Neo reporter tried on Thursday to contact the administration of the Micauti Quarry for numerous times. No one answered the telephone from the waiting room of the director general of Micauti SA Sergiu Radcenko, which was confirmed by several sources.