The president of the Lawyers Union Emanoil Ploșnița in a statement made public on July 2 demands that the prosecutor general and his deputies should be dismissed and that the role played by the prosecution service in Moldova should be reviewed, IPN reports.
“After the appointment of Eduard Harunjen as chief of the Prosecutor General’s Office, this public institution fully lost its autonomy and selectively implements the penal law,” says the statement of Emanoil Ploșnița.
He noted the abuses committed by Eduard Harunjen were transposed by a number of lawyers who cannot be investigated for statements made in the name of the client in court.
The statement also says that the Prosecutor General’s Office was an accomplice to business appropriation schemes (case of Proimobil, Vento gas stations, Andy’s Pizzerias and many others), intimidating businesspeople by searches, seizure of things and documents, fiscal inspections and, most often, placing in preventive detention of them and members of their families.
Emanoil Ploșnița expressed his disapproval of the work done by the prosecutor general, seeking his dismissal. “The Prosecutor General’s Office, in the period while it has been headed by Eduard Harunjen, didn’t show objectivity and equity in criminal proceedings, didn’t ensure the protection of human rights, as it is stipulated in the European Convention, didn’t ensure the equality of everyone before the law and the respect for the principle of equality of arms and based prosecutions on evidence obtained illegally and the dismissal of the prosecutor general is the only and most correct solution in such circumstances,” runs the statement.
According to the president of the Lawyers Union, the Moldovans’ distrust in the prosecution service should entail the dismissal of the prosecutor general and of the managers of the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office and the Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime and Special Cases.
