If the blame of Vlad Filat is proven and particular sums are confirmed, either US$10 million or US$1 million, the situation will be serious, Prime Minister Valeriu Strelet said in an interview for the portal Realitatea, quoted by IPN. The Liberal-Democratic Premier noted he wants to believe that Vlad Filat is not to guilty of what he is accused and this will be able to prove his innocence.
Valeriu Strelet spoke about the influence exercised by Vlad Plahotniuc inside the Alliance for European Integration 3 and inside state institutions. “Justice must do its job. If there are incontestable proofs, Mister Filat, as anyone else, must answer in strict compliance with the law. The state institutions are regretfully under political control, but they should fulfill their duties impartially and should not be used as instruments for taking political revenge,” he stated, adding he is also to blame for what is happening in Moldova because he wasn’t more incisive and categorical.
As to the self-denouncing statements of businessman Ilan Shor, which incriminate Vlad Filat of traffic of influence and corruption, the Premier said now that these statements were made public, they cannot be used as evidence in court. “Everyone understands this and I have the impression that some things are done on purpose. The sums invoked are hallucinatory. I don’t know if this can be real and if Mister Shor does not try to ease his own burden, shifting the blame for all those transactions onto Mister Filat, realizing that it will be very hard to verify this,” said Strelet.
The Premier considers that the wiretaps of telephone conversations between Vlad Filat and Ilan Shor, which were made public, show indeed Filat’s voice, but anything can be forged now with modern technology. “I think our bodies should act in strict compliance with the law because it is a criminal case and they should not violate the constitutional provisions on the private life and free correspondence as well as the penal provisions,” he stated.
Valeriu Strelet also said that the country must go on and must implement, without departures, the Association Agreement with the EU. “We must take care of the people and the country and get ready for the cold season. We must also have good relations with the development partners, the EU, the U.S. and the international financial organizations. We must sign a farmworker program of support with the IMF. We must maintain the pro-European alliance and avoid early parliamentary elections and should think up a new method of electing the President of Moldova and I think the election of the head of state directly, by the people, would be a solution for us,” he stated.
According to the Prime Minister, the ruling alliance must review its approaches and attitudes and must understand that it is the moment of big changes that can be put into practice. “The possible early elections can generate absolutely unpredictable consequences and can destroy the results achieved in implementing the Association Agreement and the Free Trade Agreement. It would be very hard to stage a possible reorientation to the Eurasian Union because there is Ukraine between Moldova and this Union and this country was attacked and fights against the nucleus of this Union, which is Russia,” he said.
