The Prosecutor General’s Office (PGO) sent to court a criminal case started against a prosecutor for intentionally contributing to the imprisonment of a man who served over five years in jail before he was acquitted. Together with the prospector, a police officer who falsified a number of documents in the same case will also stand trial, IPN reports.

According to the PGO, in 2007, while investigating a case of murder near Durlesti town, the prosecutor didn’t take all the measures to objectively investigate the given circumstances and wrongfully charged a person and later sent the case to court.

As a result, the person was found guilty of murder and was sentenced to 21 years in jail. In 2013, after having served over five years, he was acquitted at the insistence of the PGO and set free as it was proven that the offense wasn’t committed by this. The person filed a civil lawsuit and was awarded 1 500 000 damages. The money was paid to him from the state budget.

At the request of the prosecutor general, this March the Superior Council of Prosecutors suspended the given prosecutor from post. When the offense was committed, he served in the Exceptional Cases Division of the PGO, while the police officer worked as an inspector at the Murders and Serious Crimes Service of the General Police Commissariat of Chisinau municipality. The prosecutor and the police officer face up to seven years behind bars.