The head of the Liberal-Democratic parliamentary group Vlad Filat remained without parliamentary immunity following a requisition made by the prosecutor general. A decision to this effect was passed by 79 votes of MP on October 15, IPN reports.

Under the regulations, the voting was to be secret, but 79 MPs voted in favor of making it open.

When the issue was put to the vote, the Liberal-Democratic MPs weren’t present in the assembly all. These left immediately after Vlad Filat finished the speech he gave from the Parliament’s rostrum.

Prosecutor General Corneliu Gurin asked Parliament to annul the parliamentary immunity of the Liberal-Democratic MP Vlad Filat so that this could be detained, arrested, investigated and brought to justice. According to Gurin’s requisition, while holding the post of Prime Minister, Vlad Filat asked and received money and property from Ilan Shor for influencing public functionaries from the Government and other state institutions to take decisions and to adopt normative documents needed to ensure the issuing of additional shares at Banca de Economii, without the participation of the state. This led to the diminution of the state-owned holding in this bank to 33.3% plus 1 share and the taking over of Banca de Economii by Ilan Shor. These decisions also ensured the naming of Ilan Shor as head of the Administration Board of Banca de Economii and this thus obtained real possibilities of influencing the activity and decisions of the bank.

For his part, Vlad Filat said that today’s actions form part of a plan that was well thought out by the ‘puppeteer’. He noted that he does not need parliamentary immunity and his lawyers will prove his innocence. He also announced that from today the Liberal Democratic Party that he headed will be led by Prime Minister Valeriu Strelet.