Former Moldovan acting prosecutor general to be in preventive arrest for another 25 days
15:40 | 20.10.2016 Category: Social
Chisinau, 20 October /MOLDPRES/ - The Chisinau-based Court of Appeal today turned down an appeal by lawyers of the former acting prosecutor general, Andrei Pintea, on his release from preventive arrest. The spokesman for the Court of Appeal, Octeabrina Popa, has confirmed the information for MOLDPRES.
Andrei Pintea was detained on 11 October 2016, with a warrant of arrest applied against him for 25 days for abuse of office.
The former acting prosecutor general is charged with having illegally transferred the file of a so-called thief in law, Grigore Karamalak, alias Bulgaru, to Russia. A charge was brought against Karamalak in Moldova for having led a criminal ring in the 1990s, which committed a string of murders, robberies, money extortion and banditry.
In 2008, Grigore Karamalak got the Russian citizenship, although he was put on a wanted list in 1998. In February 2014, the Prosecutor General’s Office submitted Karamalak’s file to Russia, where he was discharged.
Andrei Pintea was dismissed from the office of deputy prosecutor general on 2 March 2015 and also at that time, he was appointed to the office of deputy acting prosecutor of the Chisinau municipality, under an order by ex-prosecutor general Corneliu Gurin.
(Reporter P. Beregoi, editor A. Raileanu)
