Filat's file was suspended. Convict gave instructions to PAS-PPDA block
The second filed in the name of the former Prime Minister, Vlad Filat, on money laundering, was suspended and sent to the Constitutional Court.
Magistrates have to decide on a request from Filat's lawyers asking for clarity on some articles of the Code of Criminal Procedure. The decision to suspend the case was issued today by the magistrates of the Chisinau district court headquartered in the Buiucani sector, where a new hearing took place in the case of the former prime minister.
According to lawyers, following the decision of the Constitutional Court, it will be decided whether the file in which Vlad Filat is accused of money laundering will be returned to the training judge or will go further.
"If the Constitutional Court will give a ruling in one way or another on this referral, it can definitely influence the process", said lawyer Victor Munteanu.
"In this case, we consider that the right of the defendant Filat Vladimir was respected and the Constitutional Court will rule on the constitutionality of the legal provisions invoked in the referral or eventual on the unconstitutionality", said prosecutor Nadejda Busuioc.
And the former Prime Minister attended this meeting. At the end, Vlad Filat made short statements.
"Have you been to the polls? Who did you vote for, Mr. Filat? We voted to have a society with a rule of law," said former Prime Minister Vlad Filat.
Asked about what the PAS-PPDA block, created by Andrei Nastase and Maia Sandu, which Filat brought to politics, should be made, the former Liberal-Democratic prime minister gave the following answer:
"- Mr. Filat, with whom should make alliance the ACUM block?
"They should think about people", said Filat.
Anticorruption prosecutors accuse him Vlad Filat that when he was leader of the LDP accounts transferred to a US PR equivalent of 13 million lei, distracted from the Savings Bank.
The consultancy company would provide assistance to the PLDM in the electoral campaign for the November 30, 2014 parliamentary elections. Prosecutors point out that an intermediary has been contacted to delete the traces of the transfers. US authorities confirmed transfers to the company that provided services to promote Liberal Democrats.
Moreover, the investigation has evidence to prove that Filat obtained money from BEM through influence trafficking. Filat declares himself innocent. If he shows guilty, the former prime minister risks another ten years in prison. This, after October 2015, was sentenced to nine years of jail for passive corruption and trafficking.
Two days ago, during a broadcast on Europa FM, former Moldovan Prime Minister Mircea Druc declared that Filat is an exponent of the so-called Lucinschi clan.
"A decade we were talking to Voronin, it was the most disastrous clan, and in 2009 I got rid of the Voronin clan. They found me at home, took me up with Mr. Druc and presented to us our young people "This is Lucinschi's clan, who is still represented by whom I do not know who, they came to power, they put the poor Filat, and what did Filat do?", said Mircea Druc, former Moldovan Prime Minister.