Tiraspol, 14 June. /Novosti Pridnestrovya/. Today the parliamentary committee on legislation has considered the prosecutor general's draft law on amendments to the constitutional law «On Prosecutor's Office of the PMR» and some other legal acts.
The proposals specify the prosecutor's authorities in monitoring compliance with the law.
A proposal to return the function of presenting cases in criminal trials to the prosecutor’s office instigated serious debate among MPs. Back in 2012, it should be noted, these functions had been imposed on the newly established Investigation Committee.
Reasoning his proposal, Alexander Deli referred to the practices in other CIS countries, and first of all the Russian Federation, where the prosecutor represents the state in criminal trials. He also underscored that these amendments aimed at drawing a demarcation line between the prosecutor's supervision and preliminary investigation.
«The main draft law in the package is a new version of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the PMR. The elaboration and submission of this draft are due to the following reasons. The current criminal procedure code has become obsolete, it is no longer relevant, it is often amended and supplemented. Thus, only in the period from 2013 to the present over 20 amendments and supplements have been made to the code. It should be noted, in the meantime, that almost all amendments and supplements made to the domestic legislation have been borrowed from Russia's criminal procedure legislation. Therefore, the proposed draft law is based on the code of criminal procedure of the Russian Federation," says the explanatory note.
Investigation Committee representatives, however, argued at today's committee meeting that such a transformation may do only harm today. Proposals were set forth to change the draft laws' concept according to which the investigation authorities would retain the function of presenting cases in courts and the prosecutor's office would enjoy extended supervision functions.
According to people's deputy Grigory Dyachenko, who backed this stance, it is necessary to demarcate investigation and supervision authorities.
In the course of the debate the majority of committee members decided to recommend the parliament to pass the bill on first reading. Another proposal was to create a working group with the involvement of all sides concerned for reaching a compromise on this issue.
