Ex-Premier Vlad Filat, who is in custody on charges of passive corruption and influence peddling, gave up the hunger strike on December 14. After examining him, doctors said his state of health was satisfactory, IPN reports, quoting a communique of the Department of Penitentiary Institutions.

According to the information provided by the Department, while he had been on hunger strike, Vlad Filat was offered the medical assistance needed in such situations.

In a press release issued by Vlad Filat’s lawyer Igor Popa it is said that the decision to stop the hunger strike was taken at the insistence of Filat’s family and on the recommendation of doctors, who said that his the state of health and physical exhaustion do not allow continuing this form of protest. Vlad Filat will undergo medical recovery procedures under the supervision of the doctor of Penitentiary No. 13.

The former Premier went on hunger strike on November 30, in protest at the actions taken by the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office and the administration of the Chisinau-based Penitentiary No. 13.