Former Moldovan Minister of Justice Vitalie Pirlog was charged with the deletion of interpol police records on Friday in France on the escape from the prosecution. This was stated for AFP by a source close to this case, writes TASR.
The French prosecutor’s office is suspected that the multinational group of conspirators paid the public officials millions of dollars for the sabotage of the system so -called. Red Notice – applications for tracking and temporary detention of a person until his extraordinary – issued by Interpol against selected suspects. One of the suspects is also the detainee Moldovan exminister Vitalie Pirlog, which chaired the Commission of Control files.
He was detained on Tuesday in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) based on an international arrest warrant published by France. On Friday, he was released from UAE to France on a number of accusations, including organized fraud and avoiding detention, said the source confirmed by the report of the French daily Le Monde.
Another source close to the case made it clear that Pirlog is also suspected of helping some persons to obtain asylum seeker’s status in Moldova, thereby suspending the order for their detention.
Pirlog’s lawyer Emmanuel Marsigny told AFP that the arrest warrant issued by France is “incomprehensible” because his client provided the French financial prosecutor’s office in the UAE. He added that Pirlog was waiting for a summons to the interrogation, as allowed by international conventions. The lawyer added that his mandant “certainly is not one of those who want to avoid justice – on the contrary”.
Interpol said that, after a small number of cases found attempts to “block and erase the so -called red notifications”, he reported the whole matter to the French authorities. At the beginning of 2025, they began an investigation into suspicions of corruption within Interpol. The French authorities are acting in the case of the fact that the headquarters of this international law enforcement agency is located in Lyon in the southeast of France.
French financial prosecutor Jean-François Bohnert explained that his team had suspected that a group of people of different nationalities bribed some officials to block and erase red notifications focused on people on the run. He added that These were bribes of several million dollars.
