​POLITICIANS AND EXPERTS ARE SKEPTICAL ABOUT RIGHTFULNESS OF IURIE BOLBOCEANU’S DETENTION

Moldovan politicians and experts have perceived with skepticism the news about the detention of former DP parliamentarian Iurie Bolboceanu on charges of espionage and high treason.

Socialist MP Bogdan Tardea stated to Infotag that the authorities are making short shrift of everybody who had even an indirect or slightest relation to businessman Veaceslav Platon.

“Bolboceanu is being punished also for his daring to defect the parliamentary Democratic faction and thus delivering a blow on the reputation of DP leader Vlad Plahotniuc. It is noteworthy that in this particular case, the treason of Plahotniuc is equalized to a high treason”, emphasized Bogdan Tardea.

He emphasized yet another aspect of this case: “With this action against Iurie Bolboceanu, the Democratic Party is demonstrating to the West that the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) is after the party leader and is trying to destabilize situation in Moldova, and that only Plahotniuc is able to hold back the onslaught of ‘Russian tanks””, said the Socialist and referred to the recent example with the authorities’ Note of protest sent to Moscow.

Moldova’s former Deputy Premier and ex-Minister of Economy Alexandru Muravschi, a prominent Moldovan economist, wondered upon hearing about Bolboceanu’s detention: “But what about our ministers of government who are calling to unification with Romania i.e. to the liquidation of the Republic of Moldova as such?”

“I don't mean rank and file unionists [adherents to the idea of Unire – Moldova’s unification with Romania]. I may like it or not, but they have the right to desire making their native country a province of another state. But the first personalities of the government! Our ministers pledged allegiance to the Republic of Moldova and swore to defend its independence and sovereignty! Their statements about the unification are a direct and overt perjury. But why nobody arrests them for a high treason?” wondered Alexandru Muravschi.

Ex-MP Mark Tkachuk, a former adviser to President Voronin, believes that in a country where supreme state officials have 3 citizenships, accusations of a high treason should apply primarily to state power representatives.

“Their names are known very well to everybody – starting from the Constitutional Court and in downward in an alphabetical order”, Mark Tkachuk wrote in social networks.