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The former Moldova premier Vlad Filat was held after he was deprived of parliamentary immunity
The former Moldova premier Vlad Filat was held on Thursday and got to the National Anticorruption Centre soon after the parliament decided to deprive him of his parliamentary immunity, after he was allegedly accused of being involved in the frauds at the Savings Bank, the Moldova.org says.
The Moldova parliament voted on Thursday for the lifting of immunity of the former premier Vlad Filat allegedly accused of being involved in the frauds from the Savings Bank (BEM), says the Unimedia.info.
For the lifting of immunity of deputy Vlad Filat, the leader of the Liberal Democrat Party (PLDM) voted 79 out of 101 MPs.
‘The system in the Republic of Moldova is a rotten one due to the reason that it is controlled by one person. This person is nobody else but Plahotniuc who tries through tricks to force this Shor to sign a decision, to avoid responsibility. But the people need a country. A country where the institutions function legally and not in the interest of one person. There are serious issues in the banking system, in the energy sector. And here we need to accept the institutions of the state are taken over’ Vlad Filat said.
The leader of PLDM Vlad Filat is involved directly in the frauds at the Savings Bank, stated on Thursday the general prosecutor Corneliu Gurin, from the Parliament headquarters.
The general prosecutor required the parliament to lift the parliamentary immunity of Filat, so that he could be investigated.
At the same time, the leader PLDM is accused that during the period when he was premier, received 60 million dollars from the manager Dufremol, Illan Shor. According to the complaint, while a premier Filat allegedly received from Ilan Shor goods to stop investigations at Dufremol, to name as honorary counsel in the Russian Federation as well as to give the right of trading oil goods.
At the same time, Vlad Filat allegedly required goods and money worth of over 190 million dollars from Shor to make civil servants in the government, and from other state structures to take decisions and adopt documents necessary to insure supplementary emissions of BEM bonds, without the participation of the state, fact which generated the diminution of the shares package of the state up to 33.3% plus the taking over of the control on BEM by Ilan Shor.
Taking into consideration the seriousness of the deeds under investigation, there is the reasonable doubt that Vlad Filat with the use of parliamentary immunity, will take actions to stop the process of managing the evidence by influencing the witnesses, the destruction or hiding of the evidence, of the relevant materials for the case or the hiding of the documents not to be presented to the criminal investigation body’, the complaint says.