Corruption in the legal system foils the attempts to reform the system. The judges are accomplices of prosecutors who receive money for starting or closing criminal cases and this is a clear proof of the corruption existing in the system, said lawyer Vitalie Taulean. According to him, his client, a businessman from Cantemir, had been tried groundlessly for three years. The damage caused to the businessman was estimated at €1.3 million.

In a news conference at IPN, the lawyer said that his client lost his business owing to the criminal case that was started against him without reasons. The trial lasted for three years. In the end, the case was closed through absence of evidence.

According to Vitalie Taulean, the criminal case was started after his client terminated a contract for the sale-purchase of a truck as the buyer didn’t fully pay the sum during six months and caused him damage of about €26,000. The businessman demanded that the truck be returned to him, but the buyer filed a lawsuit against him, accusing the seller of stealing the bought truck.

“After the criminal case was started, my client was subject to unordinary pressure. The citations were forged. He was brought to court by force, was put on the wanted list and his phone had been tapped for a year. My client lost the business. As a result of the developments, his wife gave birth to a child who has serious health problems,” said the lawyer.

Vitalie Taulean demanded two times that the charges be dropped, but all in vain. “What happens in the Prosecutor’s Office and the legal system is serious. Criminal cases are started depending on interests and are delayed for years, even if the law provides that they must be examined during a month. There are cases when the representatives of the prosecution service organize crimes and then show that they solved them successfully,” stated the lawyer.

After three years, the judged reached the conclusion that the case was started groundlessly. The businessman intends to claim damages. If damages are not awarded to him, he will appeal to the ECHR.