The Supreme Council of Magistracy rejected the acting prosecutor general’s request to give its consent to taking legal action against a judge of the Buiucani Court. In a press release, the Prosecutor General’s Office says the acting prosecutor general asked for permission to prosecute the judge for intentionally passing an illegal judgment in the case of Banca de Economii, IPN reports.

In March this year, the given judge rejected the application of the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office concerning the remanding of the ex-president of the lending committee of Banca de Economii in custody for 30 days. Consequently, the judge accepted the lawyers’ request to annul the decision on remand detention and ordered that this should be set free in the courtroom even if the period of remand detention hadn’t yet expired. Moreover, the judge applied a procedural norm that could not be used at this stage of the trial.

According to the Prosecutor General’s Office, this happened at a time when the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office sent to court the tenth case against the former president of the lending committee of Banca de Economii, who is suspected of releasing loans totaling 224 million lei in breach of the procedures together with another four ex-members of the committee. The prosecution challenged the judge’s decision in the Chisinau Appeals Court, which ruled that this was illegal.

In the last two years, this is the ninth judge who avoids being prosecuted because the Supreme Council of Magistracy does not give its consent to taking legal action against these.