Attempts are made to restore the experience of state capture of the time of Plahotniuc’s regime. This is how Alexandr Stoianoglo describes the amendments made to the law on the prosecution service by which the procedure for dismissing the prosecutor general was simplified. Stoianoglo accuses the government of lack of transparency and ignoring of the Constitution when adopting this law. He said he requested the Constitutional Court to determine the constitutionality of the given changes, IPN reports.
Alexandr Stoianoglo said the law that enables to constitute a commission for assessing the work of the prosecutor general is nondemocratic and goes against the Constitution. This law was already promulgated by President Maia Sandu.
“Everything was done non-transparently. The law before the final reading wasn’t even published on the Parliament’s website. We intended to ask the President not to promulgate this law. Elementary norms of the Construction were ignored as was the previous decision by the Constitutional Court, which already pronounced on the issue. The opinion of representatives of international organizations, which we consider our development partners, was ignored. I was politician too, but now I feel shame about this political class,” Alexandr Stoianoglo stated in the online program “Moldova’s Constellations with Artur Efremov”.
Alexandr Stoianolgo noted that if the attacks on him and the institution he heads continue, the Prosecutor General’s Office will take attitude within the law.
“Even that statement on state capture was sheer fiction as the people who came now to power want to establish exactly the same model of government. If they continue to attack me and the institution I manage, we will respond in a similar way. Believe me, we have what to respond to them with within the law,” said the prosecutor general.
He expressed his conviction that the famous “black bag” contained money offered by the former leader of the Democratic Party Vladimir Plahotniuc to Igor Dodon, but said that there is no conclusive evidence, while the images showing the two politicians are insufficient for starting a criminal case.
