Former Prime Minister Vlad Filat said that he was politically assassinated and, as a result, was given a jail term based on a mischievous agreement. According to him, what happened in Parliament on October 15, 2015, when he was stripped of immunity, was evidently a plot with the violation of the legislation and only those who do not want to do not understand this.
“A denouncing statement signed on October 13 was accepted as sufficient to ask to lift the immunity, to arrest and so on. It took only a day and a half. The MPs who voted in favor even had time to examine that request. Even if the law offered a period of up to seven days, they took a decision immediately,” Vlad Filat stated in a news conference at IPN in which he announced that the European Court of Human Rights today passed a judgment by which it ascertained that he hadn’t enjoyed a fair trial.
He noted that everyone realizes why the hearings in his case were held behind closed doors and what he said the day he was arrested came true. Following his arrest, the state was captured and Plahotniuc seized power.
According to Vlad Filat, it is not clear who hampered the change and the return to normality after Vlad Plahotniuc ran away. A lot has been said about the oligarchic governments and the state capture, but no concrete actions were taken despite that Parliament decision of 2019, by which the state capture was ascertained.
Vlad Filat noted that no victim of that selective, politicized justice was rehabilitated. But those persons should have been offered legal possibilities, by a special norm, to prove their innocence as part of fair trials. “The good intentions do not mean anything. The actions actually matter,” stated the ex-Premier.
The violation ascertained by the ECHR can be remedied only by ensuring a public trial. “The Constitution clearly provides, in at least two articles, that the trials should be public, while the Penal Procedure Code clearly stipulates that the violation of the open court principle leads to nullity. So, the procedures and all the procedural documents adopted in the so-called trial are considered null. We will discuss the subsequent actions with the lawyers and will act appropriately,” stated Vlad Filat.
Arrested on October 15, 2015 and sentenced to nine years in jail for passive corruption and influence peddling by the sentence passed by the Chisinau Court on June 27, 2016, which remained final by the Spume Court of Justice’s judgment of February 2017, Vlad Filat was released from jail before time, in December 2019, based on the national mechanism for reducing the punishment owing to the inhuman and degrading conditions in penitentiary. Vlad Filat pleaded not guilty.
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