The government of the Republic of Moldova lost another case at the Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) after failing to enforce a court decision. The judgment delivered by ECHR on December 19 orders the government to pay the plaintiff – Victor Gasitoi of Balti – a sum of EUR 2,500 within 3 months, Info-Prim Neo reports. Roman Zadoinov, the lawyer who represented Gasitoi at ECHR, told today a news conference in Chisinau that his client had been the victim of an arbitrary procedure of the police in his hometown, for which he had requested damages in a Balti court. According to the decision pronounced by the Balti court on April 18, 2001, the Ministry of Finance was to pay Gasitoi a sum equivalent to EUR 159 for damages, but the decision was ignored. In March 2005, the plaintiff appealed to ECHR, citing the violation of his right to a fair trial and private property. After the Government was notified of the application, it admitted that the rights of Gasitoi had been violated and vowed to pay him a total of EUR 2,500, but never did. Therefore, the European Court made it explicit that the government must pay this sum within a determined period of 3 months. According to Moldova's agent at ECHR, Vladimir Grosu, from the beginning of 2008, the Court delivered nearly 30 judgments concerning Moldova, 23 of which found that there had been violations of the the European Convention on Human Rights. Grosu informed that the most frequent violations complained of at ECHR concern the right to a fair trial and the failure to enforce judgments.