Prime Minister Dorin Recean announced that former police officer Ion Perju, convicted for the murder of Valeriu Boboc during the April 7, 2009, protests, hid for years in the Transnistrian region before joining Ilan Shor’s group. Perju organized money laundering and financial distribution for the network. Authorities identified him during investigations into electoral fraud.
“The lesson all criminals, especially murderers, must learn is that sooner or later they will be caught, handcuffed, and jailed for what they did. For quite a long time, he hid in Transnistria. Now the Shor criminal group hired him to organize a money laundering and distribution network. During the investigation of electoral crimes and fraud, we identified this former policeman who killed a young man in April 2009. Society must see who the Shor network used to defraud our vote. Anyone who breaks the law will pay. Justice reform, however criticized, is starting to show results,” Recean told journalists.
On September 16, law enforcement officers detained Perju. They found him hiding in the attic of a house in Chisinau’s Botanica sector during searches linked to Shor’s money laundering operations.
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Perju had been on the run since 2015, when the court sentenced him to 10 years in prison for torturing and fatally beating 23-year-old Boboc. Investigators determined that Perju delivered the fatal blow.
The ex-policeman denied guilt, insisting he was not the officer captured on video kicking the victim.