The special sitting of Parliament, where the managers of the Prosecutor General’s Office, the National Anticorruption Center, the Security and Intelligence Service, the National Bank of Moldova and the Ministry of Finance will be questioned over the bank frauds, will be held behind closed doors. Such a decision was taken by 52 votes of MP in favor, IPN reports.
Initially, the leader of the Party of Communists Vladimir Voronin proposed that the meeting should be closed because the Code of Penal Procedure does not allow making public a multitude of aspects and there is a risk that many details will be omitted.
Present in the assembly hall, Prosecutor General Corneliu Gurin said that if the sitting is open, there could be presented only information that can be made public. Thus, the information will be incomplete.
The Liberals’ leader Mihai Ghimpu pleaded for holding the meeting behind closed doors, while the leader of the Party of Socialists Igor Dodon demanded opening it so as to provide the people with more details about the investigation into the bank frauds. The Lib-Dems shared this opinion.
When the issue was put to the vote, 52 MPs voted in favor of holding the meeting behind closed doors. Statements for the press could be made after it. Under the regulations of the sitting approved by the Parliament’s Standing Bureau, each of the rapporteurs – Prosecutor General Corneliu Gurin, director of the National Anticorruption Center Viorel Chetraru, head of the Security and Intelligence Service Mihai Balan, the National Bank governor Dorin Dragutanu and acting minister of finance Anatol Arapu – will present by a report during 30 minutes. A one-hour session of answers and questions will follow each report presentation.
