The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini, is on a visit to Moldova today. Starting 13.50, Maia Sandu and Federica Mogherini will hold a press conference at the Government House.

Following the hearings held at the Anticorruption Prosecutor's Office, Ion Druță, the chairman of the Supreme Court of Justice, has been detained for 72 hours. According to a statement of the Prosecutor General's Office, there is reasonable suspicion of him committing illicit enrichment. The press statement says that Ion Druță’s detention was required as, given his status, he could influence other persons that are to be examined by the criminal prosecution.

The chairman of the Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry for the Investigation of the Banking Fraud, Alexandru Slusari, claims that the first person guilty of the banking system fraud is the former governor of the National Bank Dorin Drăguțan. According to Alexandru Slusari, the fraud scheme, from a legal point of view, was proposed by the former governor of the National Bank, Dorin Drăguțan, and was supported by Andrian Candu, Minister of Economy at that time, while the guarantees were signed by the former Minister of Finance Anatol Arapu, and the Government's decision to grant state guarantees was signed by former Prime Minister Iurie Leancă. "I was informed by the Prosecutor's Office that the criminal case has been re-examined since August 2019 and a criminal case has been started on these charges and all the Committee's materials are attached to it," said the Chairman of the Committee.

The parliamentary Committee on the investigation of the bank fraud must find that the General Prosecutor's Office, in recent years, has delayed the examination of the billion theft case. Also, the same committee should establish the co-participation of other state institutions in committing this fraud. Former MP Stela Jantuan argues that the purpose of the specially created parliamentary committee should be to determine the co-participation of state institutions in this banking fraud. In her opinion, the looting of the banking system did not happen only in 2014, but in order to make it happen, certain legislative and normative changes were made and all these were done under the cover of IMF requirements and Moldova-EU Association Agreement provisions. "This was an unprecedented situation when the state of Moldova, through the former government, simply plundered its own citizens. All those who participated, especially the representatives of state institutions, must be held responsible for this," specified Stela Jantuan.

In an interview for Radio Free Europe, the Minister of Finance Natalia Gavrilița has declared that during the negotiations with the IMF in Chisinau, tax policy "surprises" are not envisaged. In other news, Natalia Gavrilița has stated that the Ministry of Finance has no plans to increase taxes or change the taxation rates. The tax system for individuals remains as it is -  the single taxable quota of 12%. The only amendment is that as of January 1, 2020, people who have a monthly income of 30 thousand lei and over or an annual income of 360 thousand lei shall no longer benefit from personal exemption. And these changes have already been made in the law so that there is a predictability.

According to a statement from the General Prosecutor's Office, the specialists revealed that the air pollution in Chisinau and of the Bâc river occurred because the technological process was not observed at the Chisinau City Wastewater Treatment Plant. As a result, the damage caused to the environment constitutes almost 40 million lei. Prosecutors also found nonconformities in the management of the financial means invested in maintaining the technological process of wastewater treatment. In this case, the damage exceeds 30 million lei.

In the units of Emergency Medicine Institute (IMU), nine people remain hospitalized out of the 20 that were admitted on Monday, September 30, following the accident on Alba Iulia street, Buiucani sector of the capital. As to the woman behind the wheel of the Porsche car, who caused the accident, the deputy director of IMU has said that she is still in intensive care. After the surgery on Monday, her condition has slightly stabilized, but it is not a significant improvement. The woman is connected to the mechanical ventilator. Upon stabilization of her condition, she will need surgery on her locomotor apparatus. The Ministry of Internal Affairs announced that the car driver was in an advanced state of alcoholic intoxication (blood alcohol content of 1.87 g/l). Commenting on the accident, Prime Minister Maia Sandu said that "corruption in state institutions, including justice, which was not reformed on time, has become a tragedy." The prime minister rhetorically asked how a woman who had 5 criminal cases and 40 contravention cases for traffic violations could be allowed to drive a car.

After „Blessed Saint Jozeph / Preafericitul Iosif” Orphanage of Hâncu Monastery and the Auxiliary Orphanage on Lomonosov street, the commission set up following a post on the social networks has also checked the Children Rehabilitation Centre on Cosmescu street in the capital. The Minister of Health, Labour and Social Protection Ala Nemerenco has informed about that. The ministry has been notified ex officio after a post mentioning that in a Buiucani sector orphanage children were reportedly "terribly mistreated" appeared on the social networks.

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