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Chisinau mayor to remain in home arrest for another 30 days

20:30 | 11.10.2017 Category: Social

Chisinau, 11 October /MOLDPRES/ – Mayor of Chisinau, Dorin Chirtoaca, suspended from office, will stay in home arrest for another 30 days. The decision was taken by the magistrates of the Chisinau Court, Buiucani sector today.

According to the judges' decision, the home arrest warrant for Dorin Chirtoaca was extended until 12 November. Also, the court entirely rejected the Chirtoaca lawyers' requests to revoke the arrest measure and postpone the examination of the case until concluding of the local referendum.

Prosecutor Dumitru Robu said that "maintaining home arrest is motivated by the fact that the mayor may influence the witnesses and there is the risk of evasion by the court."

The mayor’s lawyer, Tatiana Iovu, mentioned that the magistrates' decision would be unfounded. "Several electoral and constitutional rights of Chirtoaca are breached. Keeping him in house arrest is illegal. The today decision will be appealed to the Court of Appeal," said Iovu.

The suspended mayor of Chisinau was present at the meeting. He said that disagreed with the arguments presented by the prosecutors and the court. "The decision is absurd because it violates my right to come to people in the electoral campaign to report my work for 10 years," said the mayor.

The next meeting will take place on 26 October.

Mayor of Chisinau, Dorin Chirtoaca, was detained at the end of May 2017 by anticorruption prosecutors and officers, suspected of having influence on the paid parkings’ file. Similarly, anticorruption prosecutors announced at the end of August that the mayor was investigated in a new criminal case in which he was suspected of overstepping his job duties in a file on changing the way of execution of the housing allowances in Chisinau.

Chirtoaca was suspended from office until a final sentence was issued. Likewise, he declares innocent in both cases.

(Reporter A. Ciobanu, editor L. Alcaza)

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