The November 2 hearing, where the Chisinau Appeals Court was to examine the lawyers’ appeal against the common law court’s decision by which the former head of the State Main Tax Inspectorate Nicolae Vicol was sentenced to jail, has been put off, IPN reports.

The hearing was adjourned until December 3 for the reason that the representatives of the defendant didn’t appear before the judges. One of the judges expressed his dissatisfaction with the fact that some of the participants in the trial were late.

The former chief of the State Main Tax Inspectorate was arrested by anticorruption officers on February 15, 2013. He was accused of abuse of power and illegal tapping of the phones of inferiors. After staying under house arrest for a period, Nicolae Vicol was set free by the Chisinau Appeals Court, being obliged to present himself at the prosecution bodies whenever he is summoned. On June 18, 2015 Nicolae Vicol was sentenced to six years behind bars for acts of corruption and was afterward put on the wanted list.