{"id":25518,"date":"2020-07-31T07:10:52","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T05:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/humanrights-online.org\/?p=25518"},"modified":"2021-11-26T10:43:47","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T09:43:47","slug":"prosecutors-who-commit-abuses-and-illegalities-should-be-punished-criminally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/humanrights-online.org\/az\/prosecutors-who-commit-abuses-and-illegalities-should-be-punished-criminally\/","title":{"rendered":"Prosecutors who commit abuses and illegalities should be punished criminally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Prosecutor General\u2019s Office should hold accountable the prosecutors who commit abuses and illegalities, said lawyers Veaceslav \u021aurcan and Maxim Belinschi against whom two criminal cases were started as an intimidation instrument, according to them.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<h1>Prosecutors who commit abuses and illegalities should be punished criminally<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-25516 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/humanrights-online.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/layers_moldova.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"575\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/humanrights-online.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/layers_moldova-31x21.jpg 31w, https:\/\/humanrights-online.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/layers_moldova-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/humanrights-online.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/layers_moldova-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/humanrights-online.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/layers_moldova-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/humanrights-online.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/layers_moldova-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/humanrights-online.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/layers_moldova.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/>The two lawyers were acquitted in a criminal case in which they were charged with falsification of statements. But the prosecutor in charge of the case filed an appeal. The intimidation continued by a criminal case by which attempts were made to seize the legal assistance contracts.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9sUEMG0LWRo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><u>news conference<\/u><\/a> at IPN, the two men\u2019s lawyer Valeriu Ple\u0219ca said that both Veaceslav \u021aurcan and Maxim Belinschi are active human rights defenders who dealt with resonant cases when defending clients. They had a say in many cases and made public statements contrary to those made by the authorities. Four years ago, they were accused of falsification of statements in a case that was started illegally. As a result of trials that lasted for four years, the first court acquitted them.<\/p>\n<p>After the acquittal sentence was passed, the prosecutors disagreed with the punishment and filed an appeal. They also asked 100,000 lei damages. Valeriu Ple\u0219ca said this case is one of the 38 cases mentioned in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe\u2019s report as suspected of having been started illegally, abusively and selectively and based on political reasons. Even if the prosecutor general said that the actions against illegally investigated persons will be dropped, this wasn\u2019t done. The prosecutor general\u2019s assertions run counter to the actions of inferior prosecutors who file appeals against acquittal sentences.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9sUEMG0LWRo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For his part, Maxim Belinschi said that he and his colleague Veaceslav \u021aurcan have been investigated for the simple reason that they represented injured parties that were citizens of the U.S. in a criminal case stated against a former female police officer from the municipality of B\u0103l\u021bi. \u201cWe dared to go against the system, to demand that the law be obeyed and that the persons who committed illegalities against our clients should be held accountable. As a result, we were ourselves charged, with falsification of statements,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>According to the lawyer, the epopee started with the judgment passed by a judge of inquiry of the R\u00e2\u0219cani Court, who, against the guarantees enjoyed by a lawyer, obliged the district prosecution body to question them and charge them. The prosecutor who started the criminal case was promoted. After this left, another two prosecutors continued his actions.<\/p>\n<p>Maxim Belinschi also said that new intimidation was witnessed in the form of a criminal case by which attempts were made to seize the legal assistance contracts. The ordinance to this effect was signed by an anticorruption prosecutor and was maintained by the former chief of the Anticorruption Prosecutor\u2019s Office. This was ultimately annulled by the judge of inquiry. As they saw that they cannot obtain much in Chisinau, they transferred the case to the B\u0103l\u021bi Prosecutor\u2019s Office, which issued a new decision to seize the legal assistance contracts. Later, the court rejected this request and the Appeals Court upheld the decision. \u201cThe question to the Prosecutor General\u2019s Office is: Why aren\u2019t the prosecutors who committed illegalities held accountable? We filed complaints back in 2016,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n<p>Veaceslav \u021aurcan said they have a number of questions as to the criminal cases started against them. The only thing that should be done by the PGO is to go to B\u0103l\u021bi and see all those illegal procedural documents signed by prosecutors and charge these. Such actions would give a very clear signal to prosecutors and to society as regards the wish clean the system.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipn.md\/en\/prosecutors-who-commit-abuses-and-illegalities-should-be-punished-criminally-law-7967_1075226.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> ipn.md<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Prosecutor General\u2019s Office should hold accountable the prosecutors who commit abuses and illegalities, said lawyers Veaceslav \u021aurcan and Maxim Belinschi against whom two criminal cases were started as an intimidation instrument, according to them. Prosecutors who commit abuses and illegalities should be punished criminally &nbsp; The two lawyers were acquitted in a criminal case in which they were charged with falsification of statements. But the prosecutor in charge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":25516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"Prosecutors who commit abuses and illegalities should be punished criminally - Menschenrechte Osteuropa - News &amp; Konflikte","description":"&nbsp; The Prosecutor General\u2019s Office should hold accountable the prosecutors who commit abuses and illegalities, said lawyers Veaceslav \u021aurcan and Maxim Belin"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[218,529,587,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bl-en","category-country-moldova-ru-en","category-country-moldova-en-3","category-moldova"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanrights-online.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanrights-online.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanrights-online.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanrights-online.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanrights-online.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/humanrights-online.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25519,"href":"https:\/\/humanrights-online.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25518\/revisions\/25519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanrights-online.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanrights-online.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanrights-online.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanrights-online.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}