The former mayor of Balti Renato Usatyi is prosecuted in a criminal case and was thus arrested when he entered Moldova in the evening of June 16 and was escorted to the Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime and Special Cases. After being questioned, he was released, but was obliged to present himself at the prosecution body whenever he is asked to, IPN reports, quoting a press release of the Prosecutor’s Office.
The ex-mayor of Balti is accused of committing a number of offenses. At the prosecutor’s request, the court ordered remand detention for him. On June 16, the prosecutors indicted him. His lawyers asked to replace the remand detention given that Renato Usatyi made statements about the acts of which he is accused, does not avoid being prosecuted and is in a serious state of health.
The remand detention was thus annulled by an order. Under the Penal Procedure Code, a person can be set free if the prosecutor considers the remand detention at the prosecution stage is not justified and the reasons for such a measure are no longer valid.
The investigation into this case goes on.
The Moldovan authorities put Renato Usatyi on the wanted list in 2016. In the period, he had lived in Russia.
