Moldovan PM says country fights against organized crime ring, sponsored from abroad with exorbitant sums

Chisinau, 13 November /MOLDPRES/ - Moldova fights against an organized crime ring, sponsored from abroad with exorbitant sums, worth almost 2 per cent of Moldova’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Prime Minister Dorin Recean today made statements to this effect, in the context of the electoral fraud from the presidential elections. The official said that a ‘’systemic approach’’ was necessary, in order not to allow the repeating of such actions in the long run.    

„We fight against an organize crime ring, sponsored from abroad with exorbitant sums, almost 2 per cent of the Gross Domestic Product of Moldova. Such an attack is unprecedented; this is a new form of the hybrid war, where the foundation of the democracy is attacked. It is important that we have celerity, i.e. we should move very quickly in the researching of the criminal files, once they are investigated, once the criminal prosecution measures undertaken. Equally important is that the prosecutors, judges work, so that these files have finality. I repeat, we have this big problem, because some 15-20 people are not imprisoned; they continue to perpetuate the fraud and perpetuate the crime,’’ Dorin Recean stressed.         

The PM referred also to the actions which are to be undertaken in the justice sector. ‘’During these days, I have worked with teams from the Justice Ministry, as well as asked for the opinions of all independent branches from this field – Superior Council of Magistracy (CSM), Superior Council of Prosecutors (CSP), so that we express opinions and prepare for the next wave of rigging, as we noticed this phenomenon. It was able to be partially stopped by the intervention especially of the police, of the National Anticorruption Centre and several prosecutors and judges; yet, we must have a systemic approach and as it was mentioned – we cannot act with white gloves, but must change the approach too,’’ the prime minister also said.      

PM Dorin Recean has earlier said that the rigging had been massive at the presidential elections. He stressed that this would have happened because the justice did not worked well enough, noting that ‘’we will have to change the pace and the way in this sector.’’    

In these conditions, President Maia Sandu, after a last Monday meeting of the Supreme Security Council, informed that it was necessary to shorten the period of consideration of the political corruption files. She said that the government and the parliament were to come up with a concrete plan, in order to ensure the priority examination of these causes.