Former Moldovan President Igor Dodon, charged with committing the crime of passive bribery, organizing and accepting political party financing from a “criminal organization”, remains under judicial control.

The judges of the Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ) rejected the prosecutors’ request to place the socialist under house arrest. The information was confirmed to Ziarul de Gardă by Violina Moraru, spokeswoman for the Prosecutor General’s Office (PG).

The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (PA) announced on 26 January that it had filed an application with the Court of Cassation and Justice (CSJ), requesting the replacement of the measure of the obligation not to leave the country with house arrest for Igor Dodon, in the context in which, according to the PA, the doctor who signed the document that would confirm the need for Igor Dodon to travel to Romania stated that “the patient mentioned is not known to him and that he would have applied the stamp on the Send-Extras at the request of a colleague”.

According to the PA, the doctor said during the hearings that “the request came from his colleague who always examines the Dodon family and is in close relations with them, being the wife of a councillor in the Chisinau Municipal Council, a member of the faction of the party to which Igor Dodon belonged”.

Earlier in February, the PA announced that prosecutors had ordered the recognition and hearing as suspects of former Moldovan President Igor Dodon, his wife Galina Dodon and the doctor who made the “false medical document” on the basis of which the CSJ allowed the former head of state and his wife to leave the country.

“Thus, the doctor is suspected of making and holding false official documents granting rights. At the same time, the ex-president of Moldova together with his wife, are suspected in the possession and use of the false official document granting rights,” the PA reports.

The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office states that on 26 January 2023, it opened criminal proceedings on the fact of committing the offence provided for in Article 361 paragraph (2) letter b) of the Criminal Code – “Making, possession, sale or use of false official documents, prints, stamps or seals, actions committed by two or more persons”.