Former Moldovan transports minister subjected to legal restrictions

15:13 | 14.07.2017 Category: Social

Chisinau, 14 July /MOLDPRES/ - The former transport and roads infrastructure minister, Iurie Chirinciuc, has been released from home arrest and subjected to legal restrictions. Judges of the Buiucani district court of Chisinau took a decision to this effect today.

Following the court session, the case prosecutor said that Iurie Chirinciuc had been subjected to legal restrictions till the pronouncing of the sentence. “The magistrates are likely to pronounce the sentence on 2 August this year,” the prosecutor noted.

Attending the court session, Iurie Chirinciuc said that he pled non-guilty. “The court will issue its ruling, after which I will make statements. I expect a decision according to which I am to be declared non-guilty,” Chirinciuc stressed.

The former minister, Iurie Chirinciuc, is tried on three counts: passive corruption to prompt economic agents to give up general contractor agreements, illegal extraction of minerals and abuse of office to construct a road.

The former transport and roads infrastructure minister, the acting director general of the State Administration of Roads and the heads of two construction companies on 27 April 2017 were detained by anticorruption officers and prosecutors, being suspected of organization of a criminal scheme to acquire particularly large amounts of financial means.

Iurie Chirinciuc was suspended from the position of minister on 12 May, this year.

(Reporter A. Plitoc, editor L. Alcaza)

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