The financing for the judicial system in 2020 will be reduced by 70 million lei. The given sum is to be paid by Moldova following an ECHR judgment passed in 2011. Prime Minister Ion Chicu requested to rectify the budget and cut the financing, noting the order to pay the 70 million lei reached the Government and should be honored, IPN reports.
“We will not allocate money for the illegal decisions of judges from other sources,” Premier Chicu stated in the February 19 meeting of the Cabinet. He requested the Ministry of Finance to check the incomes of the judges because of whom Moldova was convicted by the ECHR and the National Integrity Authority to determine the integrity of these judges.
He also asked Minister of Justice Fadei Nagachevski to request the Prosecutor General’s Office to take legal action against the persons who caused damage to the state budget following Moldova’s conviction by the ECHR, not only against the five judges who gave that verdict.
By March 15, the minister is to come up with a clear mechanism for suing the judges who adopt decisions for which Moldova is convicted by the ECHR.
