The system for distributing cases to judges is not random, as the law provides. Certain cases are distributed to particular judges, lawyer Vitalie Taulean said in a news conference at IPN. The lawyer stated that he reached this conclusion after five cases that he presented in court were distributed to one judge.

According to Vitalie Taulean, no one can now check the method of distributing cases to judges. There is usually only one distribution file whose contest does not make the procedure clear. “I don’t know how can all the cases with a particular impact or with particular interest reach one and the same person at a time when there are 10-15 judges at a court of law,” said Vitalie Taulean.

He also said that the case of civil activist Anatol Matasaru is a conclusive proof. A criminal case over hooliganism was started against him after he mounted a protest in front of the National Anticorruption Center. The defense said the case of Matasaru was included for 13 times in the case distribution system until it was distributed to a particular judge of the Buiucani Court.

Anatol Matasaru said that not a criminal case, but an administrative case had to be started against him. “The law is defective as it does not clearly say where contraventional hooliganism ends and penal hooliganism starts,” he stated. According to him, the prosecutors made use of this shortcoming and started a criminal case with the aim of taking revenge on him. He anticipates that the judge who is to try his case will order that he be arrested. “Until the case goes through the Appeals Court, the Supreme Court of Justice, I will stay in jail. This is the intention,” stated Matasaru.

Another case presented in the news conference refers to activist Vlad Talpa, who said that he was dispossesses of 50% of the assets he owned in a limited liability company by a sale-purchase contract authenticated by a public notary. Vlad Talpa said he went to court with this case and had to cover all the legal ways until he reached the Supreme Court of Justice, which did justice to him, ruling that the contract was illegal.

According to the activist, as a result a criminal case was started against the person who signed the contract and the notary who authenticated it. Owing to the prosecutors and judges, the process has been delayed since 2011 and nobody has been yet held accountable in this case.