The judges partially accepted the anticorruption prosecutors’ request concerning the chief prosecutor of the Hâncești Prosecutor’s Office Maxim Gropa. They ordered to place this under judicial control for a period of 30 days.
Spokeswoman for the Prospector General’s Office Mariana Cherpec confirmed the information for IPN. “The prosecutors consider the judges’ decision is unfounded and will appeal it to the Chisinau Appeals Court within three days,” she stated.
The chief prosecutor of the Hâncești Prosecutor’s Office Maxim Gropa was remanded in custody for 72 hours on suspicion on unjust enrichment and filing of a false tax return. He was partially questioned over these charges. Searches were carried out in a two-story house in which the prosecutor lives, but which is registered in the name of his father, and at two apartments owned by the prosecutor, in his office and three cars, one of which is registered in his name, the second in the name of his wife, while the third in the name of his father, but which was used by Maxim Gropa.
