The prosecutors indicted the suspended chief of the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office Viorel Morari on three counts, IPN reports.
According to the Prosecutor General’s Office, besides the two counts formulated earlier – abuse of power and falsification of public documents, Viorel Morari was also charged with interference in prosecution.
He is accused of illegally accepting a complaint from Vladimir Plahotniuc in March 2017, taking later legal action based on this and falsifying a number of documents, doing this in his own interests and in the interests of the complainer and persons close to this so as protect them from investigation in the bank fraud case and to obstruct the swift, complete and objective examination of this case.
Also, the prosecutors asked to extend the warrant for his arrest for another 30 days.
Viorel Morari was arrested on January 10. He is now held on remand at Penitentiary No. 13. He pleads not guilty.
