Stamate: Many prosecutors will have to answer for all ordered cases
MP Olesya Stamate, former chairman of the parliamentary Commission on Law, Appointments and Immunity, believes that many prosecutors should be held accountable for cases fabricated to order.
The statement was made on the air of the Puterea a Patra program on channel N4, noi.md reports.
“Many of them have to answer at all, and I hope that one day someone will ask them, and they will have to answer for all the custom-made cases sewn with white thread,” Stamate emphasized.
Referring to the case of former Prosecutor General Alexandru Stoianoglo, Stamate noted that although one of the charges was dismissed, the trial on the other two charges was ongoing, but expressed hope that the judges would act independently.
“I don’t know what is in the Stoyanoglo case, I saw an acquittal on one of the charges. Let’s see what the courts say on the remaining charges; I cannot speak out while the trial is ongoing. It’s good that these cases are on the judges’ desks. I really hope that the judges will act independently and impartially and make the right decisions both in the Stoianoglo case and in all other cases,” added Olesya Stamate.
Stoianoglo was removed from office on October 5, 2021, after the High Council of Prosecutors (SCP) allowed criminal proceedings to be initiated against him based on a complaint by a deputy of the ruling Action and Solidarity party, Lilian Karp. The SCJ appointed prosecutor Victor Furtuna to examine Karp’s complaint. Just two hours later, he filed a five-count indictment and arrested Stoianoglo.
Stoyanoglo was suspended from office for almost 2 years. On September 26, 2023, President Maia Sandu fired him, and on October 23, the SCJ announced a competition for the position of prosecutor general. On February 28 of this year, former Prosecutor General Alexander Stoianoglo was acquitted in a case in which he was accused of exceeding his official powers.
The former prosecutor general said that no evidence of his guilt was presented and repeated that the case against him “was falsified, it is a politically ordered case, and its only goal is to remove me from office.” At the same time, in a decision made on October 24, 2023, the ECHR found that the Moldovan authorities violated the rights of Alexandre Stoianoglo by removing him from the post of prosecutor general in 2021. He must receive 3,600 euros from the state for moral damages.
