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​ISS STANDS FOR INSTITUTION OF LEGAL PROCEEDINGS INTO FINDING CESIUM IN CHISINAU

07 octomber, 2015

There are grounds for institution of criminal proceedings into the finding of cesium in Chisinau, Information and Security Service (ISS) Director Mihai Balan stated at the Tuesday’s working meeting of the parliamentary Standing Committee for National Security, Defense and Public Order.

Balan said that the ISS is already working in this direction, and already possesses information about certain people standing behind all this. He believes the cesium incident is a signal that should send the Government into thinking about the expediency of organizing a complex of measures to reveal other hazardous substances.

“Interior ministry experts already found undeclared radioactive substances in previous years, and those finds went as far as court and verdicts. I admit that the number of such cases in Moldova is not great, but the problem must constantly be under state structures’ control”, stated the security chief.

Ionel Balan of the National Nuclear and Radiological Regulatory Agency said that the cesium-137 was delivered to central Chisinau 16 years ago. In 1998-1999, thefts of cesium-137 were registered at industrial enterprises in Chisinau and Balti. Those enterprises were situated not far from the place, where contaminated soils were found. According to one of the police versions, the leakage could take place due to corrosion that ruined containers with the radioactive substance.

The cesium incident was registered by ISS officers on September 21. Since then, 8 samples of the contaminated soil, evacuated from the indicated zone, were taken. Researches have shown that now the said land plot in central Chisinau is not dangerous. All in all, 120 cubical meters of contaminated land were evacuated from the city and delivered to a special landfill assigned for such purposes.

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