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The Kishinevsky sector court Buyukan arrested the leader of the Liberal-Democratic Party of Moldova, the former Prime Minister of the country Vlad Filat for 30 days in the case of the disappearance of $ 1 billion from Moldavian banks. It is reported by Newsmaker.
Filat was detained by employees of the National Corruption Center on Thursday immediately after the meeting of the parliament, at which deputy immunity was removed from him. To such an extent, the Prosecutor General Corneliu Gurin insisted during the meeting, stating that the ex-Prime Minister was involved in the theft of a billion. 79 out of 101 parliamentarians voted for the deprivation of Filat’s inviolability.
According to Noi.md, the court of preventive measures was supposed to be carried out immediately after his detention, but the politician’s lawyer Igor entered the transfer of the meeting to familiarize him with the essence of the accusations that were going to impose his client. This petition was satisfied, and Filat was sent to the insulator before the trial.
On Thursday, searches were carried out in the house and office of the ex-Prime Minister. The next day, the search was held in the house of the Political Political Parents in the village of Lapushna Khinchestsky District.
On Saturday, Filat was an official charge. The politician is considered involved in the case of Banca de Economii; The damage to him is estimated at hundreds of millions of euros. On charges of passive corruption on especially large-sized and extracting benefits from influencing values on especially large sizes, the ex-Prime Minister threatens up to 15 years in prison with a fine of up to 200 thousand lei (about $ 10,200 at the current rate) and a ban on a number of professions for a period of 10 to 15 years.
The court took more than four hours on Sunday. Filat was not present at the hearing - his interests represented the priest.
During the trial, two rallies were held near the court building. A number of Sing Partyers of Filat, including parliamentary deputies, went out to support the ex-Prime Minister. They were opposed by about 150 people chanting "return a billion!", "We want justice!" And "Filat to prison!". Between these two groups, an enhanced cordon of police special forces was built.
The legal 72-hour period of detention of Filat expired at 17:15 Sunday. If the court at this moment had not made a decision on the measure of suppression of a policy, the security forces would be obliged to release him. However, the court arrested Filat 19 minutes before this period - at 16:56.
Filat is 46 years old. He headed the office from September 2009 to April 2013 (from March 2013 as acting acting), after the Alliance for European Integration, which included his party, pushed the communists from the power of the election. In December 2010, two days were acting President of Moldova. The resignation from the post of Prime Minister Filat went after the vote of distrust, which the parliament brought to his office.
The disappearance of 1 billion dollars from Moldavian banks, which became known in the spring, served as the main factor in mass protests in Chisinau, which unfolded in September - October. The disappearance of a billion is called in Moldova "theft of the century."