Prosecutors demand to arrest Dodon for 30 days/Collage of Channel 24
< strong _ngcontent-sc129="">The criminal case against the ex-president of Moldova, Igor Dodon, accused of corruption and high treason, continues. The country's anti-corruption prosecutor's office demands that the politician be taken into custody.
We are talking about 30 days of arrest for Dodon himself and another accused, who were detained the day before in a criminal case. The press secretary of the General Prosecutor's Office of Moldova, Marianna Kerpek, announced a corresponding request from anti-corruption prosecutors on May 25.
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Prosecutors proposed a measure of restraint in the form of detention of suspects for a period of 30 days. Now the court must set a date for a meeting at which this request from the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office will be considered.
Context
On May 18, a criminal case was initiated against the ex-president and pro-Russian Moldovan politician Igor Dodon. The reason for this was the video, in which Dodon receives from the former head of the Democratic Party, Vladimir Plakhotnik, a black bag, probably filled with money.
Fragments of a non-public meeting of politicians were recorded in 2019, when Dodon was still President of Moldova, and made public in 2020. Now the ex-president of the republic is charged with four articles at once:
- passive corruption;
- accepting political party funding from a criminal organization;
- high treason;
- illegal enrichment.
By the way, Dodon, on the air of the pro-Russian Moldovan media, said that he would “deal with” the accusations and threatened the current authorities to get even for the open against him criminal case. On May 24, law enforcement officers searched the politician’s house, and the most suspect was detained for 72 hours.
We add that on the eve of the prosecutors’ petition for 30 days of arrest, members and supporters of the Socialist Party, headed by Dodon , staged a protest near the building of the Parliament of Moldova. The executive secretary of the political formation, Vlad Batrincha, said that the searches of Dodon's property are a “political show”, and the current government is “trying to intimidate the opposition” in this way.
