Civic activist Veaceslav Valico demands to suspend acting prosecutor general Dumitru Robu. In a news conference at IPN, Veaceslav Valico said the prosecution service is discredited. He referred to the recently disseminated videos showing Dumitru Robu counting a sum of money. According to the activist, an inquiry into an alleged case of corruption should be launched and Dumitru Robu should be suspended meanwhile.
Veaceslav Valico said the person who distributed the videos showing the acting prosecutor general said that Dumitru Robu counted the money he received for solving the problems of a person in conflict with the law. Neither the press, not the parties or the President reacted to this video. As a civic activist who witnesses human rights violation, Veaceslav Valico considers this situation is serious and needs to be explained. It is not clear if society can yet count on the protection of the human rights by the prosecution service “The ordinary people wonder if the Prosecutor General’s Office was discredited or we can still trust it.”
According to the activist, the people in November 2020 voted against the prosecutors who live in luxurious houses that they say they received from poor parents. Dumitru Robu said that he bought a car for his brother who is in Italy and the tens of thousands of euros he was counting was the sum paid for the car. “But the sale and purchase agreement shows that the car costs only 45,000 lei. This sum is much smaller than the sum that was being counted by Mister Robu. The transaction was formalized in half a year,” he stated, noting civil society has questions and is concerned about the independence of the prosecution service and expects an investigation to be conducted.
Veaceslav Valico called on Dumitru Robu to give up his duties until the situation is clarified. He said the Superior Council of Prosecutors and the President, who is the guarantor of the Constitution, were notified of this case. The activist also called upon the embassies working in Moldova and civil society organizations to take attitude to the given case.
