The European Court for Human Rights declared that the complaints of Moldova regarding the detention conditions are inadmissible. The decision was published today, after five complaints among which the one of Vlad Filat were examined.

The ECHR ruling states that Moldovan claimants should first obtain recognition at national level of the breach of detention conditions and, where appropriate, adequate compensation. Consequently, convicts who have been held for at least 10 days in inappropriate conditions may request a reduction in the conviction term by up to three days or receive compensation of 100 lei per day. Only after they have gone through all the national remedies and will not win the case will the complainants lodge a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights.

The former premier's lawyer, Vlad Filat, says he will not demand monetary compensation, but the reduction of the term of detention for his client.

"In our case, an effective remedy has emerged which we will certainly use. The request in the court is already ready and we will, on one of the following days, submit it in order to exhaust this national path", mentioned Victor Munteanu, lawyer.

Today, magistrates of the Buiucani court rejected the request filed by Vlad Filat's lawyer, requesting the revision of the 2016 sentence. The former prime minister was then sentenced to nine years with execution for influence peddling and passive corruption. Filat's defender argues that he will attack the judges' decision at the Chisinau Court of Appeal.
Now, Filat is also indicted in a first-instance lawsuit. He is accused that when he was the leader of the PLDM he transferred to an American PR company the equivalent of 13 million lei, money stolen from Banca de Economii.