In Chisinau, employees of the Intelligence and Security Service, together with the prosecutorʼs office, are conducting searches in the building of the Parliament of Moldova as part of a criminal case.
Moldovan Radio Liberty and NewsMaker write about it.
The information was confirmed to journalists by the press secretary of the Intelligence and Security Service Daniela Manzat and the spokesman of the prosecutorʼs office Emil Haytur.
RFE/RLʼs sources say that the investigation is being conducted in an espionage case and is directed against the head of the legal department of the parliament, Jon Kryange. NewsMaker notes that the case involves treason.
According to the sources, Kryange was caught red-handed when he passed information to the employees of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Chisinau.
Agora.md, citing sources, writes that the head of the legal department of the parliament and another person, a civil servant, were detained for 72 hours.
- In early March 2024, The Insider published an investigation into the former head of the General Staff of Moldova Ihor Gorgan. According to their data, he regularly reported to Russia about the domestic political situation in the country and transmitted data about the visits of representatives of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, who allegedly bought military equipment and howitzers for the Armed Forces.
- And in mid-March, the USA, Canada and Great Britain warned Moldova that Russia was preparing a coup on the eve of elections in the country.