Victor Furtune
According to him, the specialized prosecutor’s office is currently in charge of 10 criminal cases of torture.
“The scale of this phenomenon has decreased, it has lost its former intensity, and the specialized prosecutor’s office no longer has the need to concentrate exclusively on examining criminal proceedings related to torture,” Furtune said.
He also denied that international institutions allegedly oblige Moldova to maintain a prosecutor’s office specialized exclusively in the investigation of torture.
“The ECHR stipulates the need to have a specialized prosecutor. Within the structure of the Prosecutor General’s Office, we had, have and will have a department specialized in combating torture,” the chief prosecutor said.
At the same time, Furtune noted that in addition to 10 criminal cases of torture, more than 100 criminal trials on ill-treatment were registered last year.
According to him, the 12 prosecutors in charge of prosecution are handling a total of about 360 criminal cases, and in certain situations, the huge volume of ill-treatment cases has blocked their activities, forcing them to focus almost exclusively on these investigations.
