A group of people called on the EU Delegation to Moldova to intervene and stop the crimes committed by Moldovan prosecutors and judges. Lawyer Ilie Rotaru, who heads the Informal Association of Justice Victims, in a news conference at IPN said that he sent a letter to the Delegation’s head Pirkka Tapiola, by which he informs that criminal cases are started in Moldova by order and no reform of those for which the EU offers money is implemented.
“There are signals that the mafia in Moldova took under full control the country and its people, especially justice, the police, the prosecution service and the courts of law,” said Ilie Rotaru.
According to the lawyer, the activity of the investigators and judges within the examined cases over the last 20-25 years hasn’t been analyzed. By 33,000 criminal cases are started annually and only 8,000-9,000 of them are sent to court. The country’s administration is trying to hide from the EU the real situation in justice, where police officers, prosecutors and judges are named to posts especially for manufacturing evidence against inconvenient persons.
Ilie Rotaru also said that for the reforms to be implemented efficiently, a law should be passed to limit a person’s tenure of an executive party post to five years. He suggested regulating the procedure for employing public functionaries by contest.
Valentina Catana, one of the authors of the appeal to the EU Delegation, stated that a criminal case was started against her in 2012 over mobile phone thefts. The woman says she committed no illegality, but the police officers and prosecutors need to improve the performance indicators and thus manufactured evidence against her. Another woman Mariana Stoianov said that he husband was sentenced to seven years in jail for causing bodily injuries after the prosecutors manufactured a criminal case.
