The prosecutors disputed the October 25 decision of the Centru Court of Chisinau by which the request to place Renato Usatyi under arrest was rejected, IPN reports.
In a communique, the Prosecutor General’s Office says that given the necessity of further investigating the offense and the disagreement with the reasons invoked by the judges, the prosecutors on October 27 filed an appeal to a higher court, demanding that the accused should be investigated under arrest.
The leader of the Political Party “Our Party” Renato Usatyi, who is the mayor of Balti municipality, was arrested by officers of the Security and Intelligence Service at the Chisinau airport, upon his return from Russia, on October 23. He is suspected of organizing the illegal wiretapping of telephone conversations between ex-Premier Vlad Filat and the current mayor of Orhei Ilan Shor. On October 25, Usatyi was set free from arrest by the Centru Court, which rejected the prosecutors’ request to place Usatyi under arrest for 30 days.
