The Prosecutor General’s Office (PGO) said it examined the application filed by Socialist MPs, who asked to verify the press reports about the alleged illegalities committed by MP Iurie Reniță when he held the post of Moldova’s Ambassador to Romania, and determined that those reports are not sufficient for taking legal action, IPN reports.

“The preliminary examination of the application showed that its content does not meet the penal-procedural conditions for being classed as notification of infraction whose registration enables to take legal action,” the PGO said in a press release.

In a Parliament sitting, PPPDA MP Iurie Reniță and Socialist MP Vlad Batrîncea, who is one of the authors of the application to the PGO, exchanged harsh replies. The Socialist MP accused Reniţă of having been involved in cigarette smuggling while serving as Moldova’s Ambassador to Romania and said he would ask the PGO to hold him accountable for those acts.