The prosecutors continue investigating the case of the former member of the Parliament and of the Democratic Party, Constantin Țuțu. The former deputy returned to Moldova on March 27. Since then he has an interdiction on leaving the town. 

The Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office prolonged by 30 days the interdiction for Țuțu to leave the town after the first interdiction finished. 

On March 27, Țutu returned in Moldova and was placed in a 14 days quarantine. Previously, the prosecutors charged him with influence peddling and illicit enrichment. 

On April 1, he posted a photo from a gym, but the representatives of the Chișinău Municipal Police Department ensured us that he is strictly respecting the quarantine regime and that the photo was made some time ago. 

Former Democrat Deputy Constantin Ţuțu is under investigation by the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office for influence peddling. The Chișinău Court issued a 30-day arrest warrant in his name, in absentia on September 27, 2019. However, the deputy fled the country in June 2019.  

The former deputy is being investigated on the basis of Article 326 of the Moldovan Criminal Code –  influence peddling – and is accused of having asked for and taken 20,000 euros from the relatives of a man arrested in autumn 2017. 

Constantin Țuțu allegedly promised to influence the prosecutors and intervene to have the arrested man released. It is not yet clear why the case was only begun two years after the crimes have been committed.

Constantin Ţuțu was a deputy in the Democratic Party faction from 2014-2018, under the party leader Vladimir Plahotniuc. The deputy left Moldova in June 2019, after the change of government.