Representatives of the legislature announced that they have suspended the Parliament employee suspected of a criminal case while prosecutors from the Prosecutor’s Office for Combating Organized Crime and Special Cases (PCCOCS) conduct the investigation.
“The leadership of the Parliament, together with the Secretariat of the Parliament, provides all the necessary support to the law enforcement bodies to continue the investigations and elucidate the case objectively. According to the law, the person is presumed innocent until the completion of criminal proceedings,” the institution said.
The employee of the Embassy of the Russian Federation, who allegedly recruited the employee of the Parliament and the Border Police, accused of treason, will be declared persona non grata. The official is to leave the territory of the Republic of Moldova in the coming days. Russian ambassador Oleg Vasnetsov was informed of this and summoned to the Foreign Ministry in Chisinau on Thursday, August 1.
FOR THE MOSTÂ IMPORTANT NEWS, FOLLOW US ONÂ TWITTER!
Vasnetsov made several statements to journalists criticizing Chisinau’s decision in this case.
On Wednesday, July 31, the Prosecutor’s Office for Combating Organized Crime and Special Cases (PCCOCS) and the Intelligence and Security Service (SIS) detained two officials, one from the Parliament and the other from the Border Police.
More specifically, the two suspects of treason and plotting against the Republic of Moldova communicated various information to an employee of the Russian Embassy in Chisinau. Russian part could use the information against the interests of our state.