{"id":444921,"date":"2017-11-27T21:53:06","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T21:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/?p=444921"},"modified":"2017-11-27T21:53:06","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T21:53:06","slug":"maia-sandu-challenges-court-refusal-prosecutors-investigate-vlad-plahotniuc-usurpation-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/maia-sandu-challenges-court-refusal-prosecutors-investigate-vlad-plahotniuc-usurpation-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Maia Sandu challenges in court the refusal of prosecutors to investigate Vlad Plahotniuc for usurpation of power"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>The leader of the Action and Solidarity Party (PAS), Maia Sandu, challenged in court the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/prosecutors-office-informed-pas-refusal-start-prosecution-behalf-vladimir-plahotniuc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">order of a prosecutor<\/a> to refuse the investigation of Vlad Plahotniuc for usurpation of power.<\/p>\n<p>According to Sandu, quoted by a PAS press-release, the complaint to the court states that the prosecutor was biased in examining the penal inquiry against Plahotniuc. The given prosecutor reportedly asked only close persons and party affiliates of the Democrat oligarch and nobody who could make statements against him. Moreover, the fact that Plahotniuc himself wasn&#8217;t requested to come for a hearing\u00a0<em>raises problems of credibility towards the way the penal inquiry was examined<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The PAS leader believes that prosecution and justice institutions are\u00a0<em>subordinated to Vladimir Plahotniuc<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the fact he holds no governmental position, Vlad Plahotniuc is known for his control over the Government, judiciary branch, prosecution system and the anti-corruption bodies through his proxy Democratic Party, vassal-parties and particular persons in the top of management of Moldovan state institutions. Vlad Plahotniuc is often called the one and only oligarch left in Moldova, the\u00a0<em>grey eminence<\/em>\u00a0or\u00a0<em>the puppeteer<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>of Moldovan politics. He was officially elected as the leader of the Democratic Party at the\u00a08th Congress in December 2016. He might be under penal investigation in Romania for allegations of organized crime, blackmailing, money laundering and fraud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The leader of the Action and Solidarity Party (PAS), Maia Sandu, challenged in court the order of a prosecutor to refuse the investigation of Vlad Plahotniuc for usurpation of power. According to Sandu, quoted by a PAS press-release, the complaint to the court states that the prosecutor was biased in examining the penal inquiry against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":442880,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-justice","category-politics"],"content_social_share":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>The leader of the Action and Solidarity Party (PAS), Maia Sandu, challenged in court the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/prosecutors-office-informed-pas-refusal-start-prosecution-behalf-vladimir-plahotniuc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">order of a prosecutor<\/a> to refuse the investigation of Vlad Plahotniuc for usurpation of power.<\/p>\n<p>According to Sandu, quoted by a PAS press-release, the complaint to the court states that the prosecutor was biased in examining the penal inquiry against Plahotniuc. The given prosecutor reportedly asked only close persons and party affiliates of the Democrat oligarch and nobody who could make statements against him. Moreover, the fact that Plahotniuc himself wasn&#8217;t requested to come for a hearing\u00a0<em>raises problems of credibility towards the way the penal inquiry was examined<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The PAS leader believes that prosecution and justice institutions are\u00a0<em>subordinated to Vladimir Plahotniuc<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the fact he holds no governmental position, Vlad Plahotniuc is known for his control over the Government, judiciary branch, prosecution system and the anti-corruption bodies through his proxy Democratic Party, vassal-parties and particular persons in the top of management of Moldovan state institutions. Vlad Plahotniuc is often called the one and only oligarch left in Moldova, the\u00a0<em>grey eminence<\/em>\u00a0or\u00a0<em>the puppeteer<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>of Moldovan politics. He was officially elected as the leader of the Democratic Party at the\u00a08th Congress in December 2016. 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