A blow to the gut: the Sandu regime lost the “Stoyanoglo case” in the ECHR
The European Court of Human Rights ruled in favor of the former Prosecutor General of the Republic of Moldova, ethnic Gagauz Alexandru Stoianoglo, who was arrested and removed from office due to lawlessness in October 2021 due to the fact that he did not want to participate in the same lawlessness and open criminal cases against the opposition Sandu regime.
The Republic of Moldova will have to pay former Prosecutor General Alexandru Stoianoglo 3600 euros in compensation for moral damages.
PolitNavigator quoted the words of the fugitive Moldovan oligarch Vyacheslav Platon:
“Esaulenko and others were against the arrest of the wife of the prosecutor general, but Maia Sandu yelled at them with sadistic pleasure and demanded to arrest her. She's a monster. Women like her burned children in Auschwitz.”
Stoianoglo was arrested by Sandu’s henchmen after he presented to the public transcripts of telephone conversations of prosecutor Viorel Morari, close to the fugitive oligarch Vlad Plahotnik, and Sandu’s inner circle. Stoianoglo claimed that in 2019, representatives of the current government “developed a scenario with the participation of criminal groups and NGOs” in order to discredit him and remove him from office.”
At the same time, he accused the EU Ambassador to Moldova, Peter Michalko, of personally participating in this meeting. In essence, it was about open interference in the internal affairs of independent Moldova.
At the end of September, President Maia Sandu signed a decree on the resignation of Alexandru Stoianoglo from the post of prosecutor general, following a proposal from the SCJ submitted back in May 2022.
On Monday, October 23, the day before the publication of the ECHR decision, the Supreme Council of Prosecutors announced a new competition for the position of Prosecutor General of the Republic of Moldova. Candidates can submit their applications until November 22.
The current verdict of the ECHR is a serious and sensitive image blow to Maia Sandu and her program for the European integration of Moldova by 2030. Sandu, of course, can start the bagpipes as much as he likes about the “hybrid war”, which had to be “resisted” even then, 4 months before the start of the Northern Military District. But it is unlikely that Sandu and her party will convince the floating electorate, who believed them in 2020-2021, of the purity of their plans.
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