Lawyer Vitalie Taulean said a criminal case against him was started in the absence of evidence. He considers he is persecuted because he made public a number of illegalities committed by prosecutors, becoming thus an inconvenient person.
In a news conference at IPN on February 10, Vitalie Taulean said a criminal case was started against him over hooliganism after last October he went to the Prosecutor’s Office to defend two of his clients and was there mistreated by the prosecutor dealing with that case, being driven out of the office. The prosecutors broke the law when they banned the defense from being present at the hearings.
Vitalie Taulean presented videos of the day he was at the Prosecutor’s Office. According to him, these images show that he didn’t violate public order and went to the prosecutor with the consent of the policewoman on guard, who issued him with a permit. The police officer was afterward imposed by the prosecutors to make untrue statements, saying he crept in without a permit and pushed her.
The lawyer said that he informed the prosecutor general about the illegalities committed by the prosecutors, but received no answer so far. According to him, the prosecutor general, who can order investigating prosecutors, didn’t react because a political order was made. “The interest comes from Mister Plahotniuc, who controls the Prosecutor General’s Office and gives all the instructions,” stated Vitalie Taulean, noting the goal is to remove him from the bar.
He also said that he faces such a situation, when a lawyer is sued for hooliganism, for the first time. Evidence was collected during only two days and the case was remitted to court for examination. Vitalie Taulean requested the Prosecutor General’s Office to deny the information presented in a communique, according to which he said he was slandered when he was accused of acts of hooliganism in the Prosecutor’s Office.
The lawyer said that in the absence of a reaction to this case from Prosecutor General Corneliu Gurin, he will file a notification to Parliament or will even stage protests.
