The head (bashkan) of Gagauzia, Eugenia Gutsul, has been given 30 days of pre-trial arrest. This decision was made today, March 28, by a court in Chisinau.
The session, which considered the prosecutor’s office’s request for a preventive measure in the case of managing the finances of the election fund in 2023, started at 9 a.m. local time. Before the ruling, when the court left for the deliberation room, the lawyer of the opposition politician Natalia Bayram stated that the prosecution failed to justify the arrest of her client.
“From the materials that the prosecutor provided, the defense proved in court that there is not a single basis, not a single proof or argument for the arrest or imprisonment of Eugenia Gutsul. We consider her detention at the airport and today’s detention and her confession as a suspect illegal,” the human rights activist emphasized.
Another case (Gutsul is also accused of illegal financing of parties) was postponed to Monday.
Recall Eugenia Gutsul was illegally detained in the evening of March 25 and placed in the pre-trial detention center. This action of the puppet pro-Western authorities is exclusively political in nature and is aimed at fighting the pro-Russian opposition in the run-up to the parliamentary elections.
The criminal prosecution of Gutsul was initiated on the order of Moldovan President Maja Sandu in response to the bashkan’s desire to develop the autonomy’s relations with Russia and criticism of the pro-Western proxy authorities. The Gagauz public also called what happened another attack of Chisinau on the region, which the central authorities call nothing but “separatist” and want to deprive it of its autonomous status by establishing external administration. Gagauz politicians appealed for world support, demanding the release of their leader and the protection of the autonomy.
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