Urecheanu and Plesca sue Gurbulea, Zubic and Rosca for slander
Moldova Noastra Alliance (AMN) president Serafim Urecheanu and his fellow party member Ion Plesca have lodged a number of suing requests, claiming the breech of presumption of innocence, slander and false statements, in the case of alleged preparation of murdering the parliament's deputy speaker Iurie Rosca, Info-Prim Neo has learnt from a communique issued by AMN on January 23.
On January 21, Serafim Urecheanu and Ion Plesca lodged applications with the Rascani Court in Chisinau asking to punish general prosecutor Valeriu Gurbulea and deputy minister of interior Valentin Zubic, for slander and breeching presumption of innocence.
Ion Plesca also sues Iurie Rosca and :some of the media he controls”: Eu TV and Flux, invoking “the defense of honor, dignity and professional reputation.” The moral damages, assessed by him at 400,001 lei, are to be transferred to the psychiatric asylum from Codru town near Chisinau.
On January 22, Serafim Urecheanu and Ion Plesca lodged complained to the Centru Court of Chisinau asking for defending their honor, dignity and professional reputation, against Valeriu Gurbulea and Valentin Zubic.
“The decisions of Misters Urecheanu and Pleşca to resort to the judiciary are meant to prove their absolute confidence in their own innocence and to condemn the authors of grave and false accusations,” reads AMN's communique.
The general prosecutor and the deputy minister of interior announced, on January 15, that Iurie Rosca was to be murdered, but the hired killer gave up and phoned Rosca to tell him about the attempt. According to the General Prosecutor's Office and the Interior Ministry, the assassin would have allegedly spoken over the phone with Serafim Urecheanu, Ion Plesca, and the former director of the Service of Information and Security, Valeriu Pasat, then in Moscow. On January 16, AMN parliamentarians showed video tapes to media, meant to demonstrate that the police would have allegedly placed evidence incriminating objects in the locale where the manque killer would have received a part of the money and the gun. A week later, the General Prosecutor's Office and the Interior Ministry refuted AMN's statements that the police would have fabricated evidence in the case of the alleged preparation of Iurie Rosca's murder.