Anticorruption prosecutors present judges all evidence on file of former Moldovan PM

Chisinau, 12 April /MOLDPRES/ - Anticorruption prosecutors today presented judges of the Buiucani district court of Chisinau all evidence concerning the file of the former prime minister, Vlad Filat.   

The lawyer of the former PM, Igor Popa, said that “the prosecutor put 21 volumes of evidence on judges’ table, all unveiled only at one court session, which runs counter the criminal procedures.”

The today’s court session is the last within the hearing of witnesses for the prosecution. The former director of the National Financial Market Commission, Artur Gherman, was heard today.  

Asked by journalists while leaving the court room, Gherman said that he had spoken to magistrates about the state’s decision from 2013 not to participate in supplementing of shares to increase the capital of Banca de Economii (Savings Bank, BEM) with over 80 million lei, thus the government ceasing to hold the controlling stake of the institution. “At that time, nobody listened to me from the Liberal Democratic Party (PLDM). I told them that these actions would hit as a boomerang back in the formation,” Gherman said.    

The prosecutor of the case, Adriana Betisor, said that “starting from 13 April, the consideration of the evidence of the defence will start.”

Igor Popa said that over 30 witnesses would come to court, among whom there are “the former governor of the National Bank of Moldova, Dorin Dragutanu, as well as other high-ranking officials.”  

The former prime minister, Vlad Filat, was detained on 15 October 2015, based on a self-denunciation by Ilan Shor, who said that he would have bribed Filat with 250 million dollars.   

Filat has been under preventive arrest for almost six months. He was charged with influence peddling and passive bribery in the file of Banca de Economii fraud.   

(Reporter A. Plitoc, editor A. Raileanu)