Transnistria and Gagauzia

TIRASPOL CONSIDERS CONDEMNATION OF TRANSNISTRIAN POLICE OFFICER IN MOLDOVA "POLITICAL DECISION"

18 august, 2020

Deputy Foreign Minister of Transnistria Alexander Stetsyuk considers “the decision of the Moldovan court on Transnistrian Andrei Samoniy’s imprisonment for a period of 15 years as politicized.”

As is reported at the agency's website, he said this yesterday during an online conversation with the Deputy Head of the OSCE Mission to Moldova Antti Karttunen, calling this case “outrageous”.

According to the report, within the framework of the communication, “a substantive exchange of views on a wide range of topical aspects of the agenda for the Moldovan-Transnistrian negotiation process” took place.

Former Transnistrian law enforcement officer Andrei Samoniy was sentenced by a Moldovan court to 15 years in prison for violating the inviolability of home, abducting and using tortures against two residents of the Floresti region.

According to the investigation, on the night of April 9, 2015, officers of the Transnistrian Ministry of Internal Affairs abducted a married couple - citizens of Moldova. They were taken by boat to the left bank of the Nistru River and taken to the Kamenskoye police station. The victims were severely beaten, put in a temporary detention center, accused of stealing two rabbits.

On April 12 they were released, and upon returning home they contacted the police of the Republic of Moldova. The forensic medical examination found numerous physical injuries.

Until January 2020, the criminal case initiated in Moldova was suspended because the investigation could not bring the accused. It was resumed after the police managed to detain one of the participants in the crime. It turned out to be Samoniy, detained in the village of Senatovka on the right bank of the Nistru River.

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