MOLDOVAN GOVERNMENT LOSES ONE MORE SUIT AT ECHR
On Tuesday, the European Court of Human Rights declined the protest lodged by the Government of Moldova concerning the suit of former Deputy Mayor of Chisinau Ion Paladi, and ruled that the Government must pay 21 thousand euros in compensation of his moral and material damage and the costs.
In September 2004, the Moldovan Center for Combating Economic Crimes and Corruption (CCECC) started criminal proceedings against the ex-Deputy Mayor on charges of his exceeding position. Ion Paladi then spent several months in custody. From the very beginning, Paladi and his lawyer kept on stating that was but a purely political enterprise, a revenge by the Moldovan Communist authorities for his activities in the electoral team of the then Chisinau Mayor Serafim Urechean, who was the leader of the Moldovan opposition in those years.
Having found no justice or understanding at Moldovan courts of all levels, Paladi addressed the European Court of Human Rights, having challenged his detention conditions. In particular, Ion Paladi, while being seriously sick, was deprived of the right to receive medical help. A Moldovan court regarded his claim as fully founded, but the Moldovan Government refused to obey to the court’s judgement and filed a protest with the ECHR, but eventually lost the litigation.
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