It is outrageous when cases are fabricated in order to discredit the Liberal Party and the mayor general of Chisinau, the Liberal leader Mihai Ghimpu stated in a news conference staged to give details about the second criminal case started against Dorin Chirtoaca, IPN reports.
Mihai Ghimpu said Dorin Chirtoaca saved about 100 million lei in the municipal budget when he offered compensations instead of apartments to the families that were to be provided with dwellings by the local administration. 70% of those who got money for homes were police officers, while 30% were judges.
“Now they want to see if the mayor is guilty or not. Do you remember what Vlad Filat said, that the mayor of Chisinau is involved in 600 disputes? It was about 600 applications to provide apartments on which over 300 million lei was to be spent,” stated the Liberal leader, reminding that the municipality was fined for several times for not implementing court decisions to provide dwellings.
Liberal councilor Ion Cebanu said the law on the police, the prosecution service and the judicial system of 2005 stipulates that the given categories of employees are entitled to free homes. But a large number of applications to be offered homes started to be filed two years later, when Dorin Chirtoaca took up mayoralty. Administrative cases were even started against Chirtoaca because he didn’t execute relevant court decisions.
The councilor added that the problem of allotment of apartments was discussed with those from the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Justice as the municipal budget was blocked and property was sequestrated. It was thus decided to allocate municipal funds in the form of compensations instead of homes. In 2012-2016, the Chisinau Municipal Council authorized the mayor to allocate over 160 million lei for homes, but only 60 million lei was spent.
Ion Cebanu noted that all the money was earmarked in the municipal budget and was allocated in a maximally transparent way.
