The strategy for reforming the prosecution service was drafted under the control of oligarchic clans so that the Prosecutor General’s Office (PGO) becomes a hostage institution that will serve not the people’s interests, but the interests of the ruling oligarchic groups, the chairman of the People’s Force Party (PFP) Nicolae Chirtoaca said in a news conference at IPN.
The politician said that a working group was set up in August to work out the strategy for reforming the prosecution service. The group includes representatives of the Ministry of Justice, the Prosecutor General’s Office and of the ruling oligarchic groups. The authorities declared then that public debates will be held on the strategy, but the largest part of the administration of the PGO does not yet know its content.
Nicolae Chirtoaca said that the strategy of this working group became known only owing to a leak. “We are concerned about the lack of transparency and the complete secretization of this document, which causes justified suspicions as to the real intents of the government coalition that convincingly pretends to do other institutional reforms as well,” he stated.
Under the strategy, the College of the PGO will be liquidated, while the prosecutor general will be empowered with new rights, alongside the Supreme Council of Prosecutors, which, according to Nicolae Chirtoaca, is a professional association with a powerful corporatist spirit managed from above.
The specialized prosecutor’s offices – the Transport Prosecutor’s Office and the Military Prosecutor’s Office – will be also liquidated on the pretext of demilitarizing the prosecutors. The politician said this is another attempt to centralize the system and to concentrate the power at the top of the administrative-bureaucratic pyramid.
According to Nicolae Chirtoaca, no proposal concerning the dismissal of the prosecutor general was taken into account. The oligarchic clans make effort to take under control all the prosecution bodies and to use them in order to hide the appropriation of public funds by smuggling, money laundering through banks, etc.
The deputy head of the PFP, lawyer Pavel Midrigan said the working group that drafted the strategy didn’t include well-known specialists from the field of law and this is doubtful.
Another deputy head of the party Constantin Lazar said that if the prosecution bodies are not reformed according to a coherent stagey and the reformation of the prosecution service is mimed, the state will become really dominated by oligarchic clans, while the future will be uncertain.
