Company employees demand removing raiders

Current and former employees of companies working in Falesti and Edinet staged a protest in front of the Supreme Court of Justice on Thursday morning, demanding hastening the examination of a number of cases and punishing the judges involved in the liquidation of a number of companies operating in the two districts, Info-Prim Neo reports. The protesters say the companies are liquidated by a criminal group composed of judges, prosecutors, police officers, bailiffs and state officials. Former director of the Falesti-based SA Avicola Nord Gheorghe Barladeanu said the raiders started their attacks three years ago. “In 2008, they destroyed the doors and safes and took documents and objects belonging to us. We decided to take to the streets in order to defend our interests. Dozens of people have been discharged without being issued with a workman’s pass and they cannot find employment elsewhere. These are raider acts,“ said Gheorghe Barladeanu. The protesters requested the Acting President of Moldova and the Prime Minister designate to set up an interdepartmental commission that will include representatives of the Prosecutor’s Office, the Center for Combating Corruption and Economic Crime and the Ministry of the Interior. “We want this criminal scheme aimed at destroying the national economy to be removed,” Gheorghe Barladeanu stated. Valeriu Chirica, the head of a Falesti grain company, said that all their sowers and other equipment were stolen several years ago and the company is now close to bankruptcy. “One day, they came together with the police, broke the locks and safes and took our documents. I know that they now appropriate other companies and nobody takes steps,” Valeriu Chirica said. The director of SRL Bastinasul Virgil Paslaru said the raiders took all his machines and he cannot start the spring works. “We decided to protest and demand dealing with this matter,” he said. The employees said they will continue to protest until justice is made to them. Vladimir Balan, jurist for SA Avicola Nord, has told Info-Prim Neo that there is no group of raiders and that former director Gheorghe Barladeanu organized the protest in order to pressurize the judges into hastening the examination of the case concerning his reinstatement in post. The jurist also said that when Gheorghe Barladeanu was director, the company had debts of 2 million lei. In 2008, the assembly of shareholders decided to appoint a new director. “Everything was legal and there was no raid,” he stated.