Prosecutors send criminal file against Chisinau mayor to court

16:46 | 21.07.2017 Category: Social

Chisinau, 21 July /MOLDPRES/ - Prosecutors today sent the criminal case against Chisinau mayor Dorin Chirtoaca to court. The mayor will be tried for passive corruption and influence peddling.

At the same time, prosecutors asked the Chisinau Municipal Council (CMC) to suspend the general mayor from office during the trial, in order to exclude any influences on witnesses, one of whom exercises certain duties in the Chisinau city hall.

According to the press service of the Prosecutor General’s Office, during 2014-2015, CMC instructed the carrying out of the procedure of selecting a company for the arrangement, organization and management of parkings against payment in the Chisinau municipality. In the spring of 2015, the company’s representative met the head of the public transport and communication means general department of the Chisinau city hall, Igor Gamretchi, whom he asked to make representations to the Chisinau mayor to speed up the contest and ensure the winning of the tender by the company EME PARKLEITSYSTEM GmbH.

Igor Gamretchi told the mayor about the businessman’s proposal. Subsequently, the businessman registered an off-shore company in Cyprus, which became associate of EME PARKLEITSYSTEM GmbH, with a share of 26 per cent. Thus, the 26 per cent of the company’s incomes represented the reward for the signing of the public-private partnership contract between the company EME PARKLEITSYSTEM GmbH and the Chisinau city hall, of which 13 per cent were to be received by the general mayor and another 13 per cent – by the head of the public transport and communication means general department of the Chisinau city hall.

After the company from Cyprus has become associate of EME PARKLEITSYSTEM GmbH, the mayor gave instructions on the initiation of the tender and the aforementioned company becomes winner. Also, also at an instruction by the mayor, the deputy mayor signed the contract without CMC’s approval and Dorin Chirtoaca instructed the starting of the designing works and approved the town-planning certificates.

Presently, Chisinau mayor Dorin Chirtoaca is prosecuted in home arrest.

(Reporter A. Plitoc, editor M. Jantovan)

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