The Baron of the Roma in Moldova Artur Cerari said the Romanies obey the country’s laws, but they started to face the corrupt and mafiotic bodies of the legal system and this makes them stop believing in the rule of law. The leader of the Romani people called on society to react and demand that justice be done, IPN reports.
Businessman Vasilii Banda told a news conference that in 2009 he bought a facility with canning equipment at an auction. Afterward, he reached an agreement with a company director to sell him the equipment as he no longer needed it. He received only a part of the money. He then found out that the man to whom he sold the equipment filed a lawsuit against him and, presenting a false contract, dispossessed him of the facility.
Adrian Lebedinschi, lawyer for Vasilii Banda, said the first court ruled in favor of his client. Vasilii Banda asked for the overdue payment of US$106,000, but the trial ended with the acquittal of the accused.
Jurist Veaceslav Ursu said the name of the defendant who was later acquitted was written in the documents, but, paradoxically, the description of this person didn’t coincide with the person sued by Vasilii Banda. There was mentioned another year of birth and another job. The plaintiff appealed to the Chisinau Court of Appeals and inquired how a person who wasn’t involved in the trial could be quitted and were the real defendant was.
Nicolae Radita, chairman of the National Roma Center, said Vasilii Banda’s right to property was violated. “He struggled for over three years, but justice wasn’t done to him in the end. He fought with a corrupt system,” he stated.
Marin Alla, who heads the Union of Young Roma “Tarna Rom”, said the Romanies no longer trust the Moldovan justice.
Robert Cerari, first deputy head of the Sociopolitical Movement of the Roma of Moldova, said they will file an application to the ECHR if the judges who take illegal decisions are not penalized.
