Vitalie Taulean stated that criminal cases were fabricated against two Turkish businessmen who work in Moldova. In a news conference at IPN on March 5, the lawyer said that prosecutors and investigation officers created a criminal blackmailing scheme for obtaining money from the Turkish businessmen.
“There are two situations in which representatives of the Rascani Prosecutor’s Office, in concert with employees of the Rascani Police Commissariat, planned illegal activities against businessmen of Turkish nationality,” said the lawyer.
According to Taulean, a criminal case was started against the Turkish citizen Zeki Savash, based on fabricated evidence, in order to get money from him. The entrepreneur was arrested in the absence of real evidence, based on a calumnious report, being accused of meeting a person who came from Turkey in a place in Chisinau in order to receive tens of thousands of euros from this person. This is not true as the Turkish man never visited that place.
Zeki Savash told the same new conference that he has stayed in Moldova for almost 20 years and in the period worked legally and paid taxes, contributing money to the state budget. He committed no illegality and the case against him was fabricated. He was told to pay US$1,500 for the case to be closed.
Turkish citizen Bayram Arslan, who is also accused of swindle, said the police asked for €10,000 from him for dropping the charges against him.
The entrepreneurs said they are ready to seek justice in the international courts of law.
Vitalie Taulean noted that he filed a complaint against the prosecutors and investigation officers, but it wasn’t registered. According to him, it is the prosecutor general who is to blame for this as he refuses to examine the work of the prosecutors and investigation officers.
