The Superior Council of Prosecutors’ decision to designate a prosecutor to investigate the alleged illegalities committed by the suspended prosecutor general Alexandr Stoianoglo in the case of the expulsion of Turkish teachers surprises by ignorance and lack of analysis of the ECHR judgment of June 2019. Among others, the High Court held that the expulsion was caused by the lack of a judicial control mechanism over the information notices of the Security and Intelligence Service, said the lawyers for Alexandru Stoianoglo. According to them, their client from the start expresses his regret at the expulsion of the autumn of 2018 and reiterates that it is regrettable that Moldova was unable to defend the fundamental rights of the Turkish teachers, IPN reports.
In a press release, the lawyers said that after the ECHR passed its judgment in June 2019, no MP has proposed amending the legislation so as to introduce a judicial control mechanism over the SIS’s information notices by which the expulsion of asylum seekers is proposed owing to dangers to the national security. The legislation wasn’t amended to avoid such situations in the future.
When the Turkish teachers were expelled, on September 8, 2018, the post of prosecutor general was held by Eduard Harunjen. Even if the criminal case was dropped shortly afterward, the dropping order of 2019 was annulled by the current caretaker prosecutor general Dumitru Robu and the case was transmitted to the Chisinau Prosecutor’s Office, which decided that the case will be examined as’ state secret’. After Alexandr Stoianoglo took over in November 2019, he wasn’t connected somehow with this case that is now pending at the Chisinau Appeals Court.
The Superior Council of Prosecutors designated prosecutor Andrei Balan to investigate the alleged illegalities committed by the suspended prosecutor general Alexandr Stoianoglo in the case of the expulsion of Turkish teachers. Such a request was made by ex-MP Inga Grigoriu, who said that those who kidnapped the Turkish teachers were freed from punishment, while Stoianoglo didn’t take attitude.
