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BUSINESSWOMAN EUGENIA DUCA BLAMES SERGIU MOCANU FOR HER ARREST

Businesswoman Eugenia Duca has said that her and imprisonment several years ago was led by ex-Presidential counselor Sergiu Mocanu.

Duca told a news conference that Mocanu called her and invited her to a meeting in autumn 2001.

“Mocanu said that he and Parliamentary deputy Vadim Misin stay behind my opponent Iurie Andoni. Mocanu advised me to voluntarily cede my property, if not I would be deprived of my property by other means and they would send me to jail. He said they invested too much money in Andoni, so they would not submit to the influence of a woman’s ambitions. Mocanu recognized he personally invested in the operation about US$300 thousand”, businesswoman said and described Mocanu’s actions as “the uncovered blackmail and racket”.

She asked the prosecution to inquire Mocanu “how much did he paid to judge Victor Pruteanu that he sentenced her to 5 year of prison in spite of the 2010 Court Supreme of Justice’s decision, and also to the investigator who threatened her with death”.

“You should understand why Mocanu knows so well all these “mafia-controlled and criminal schemes”, which he condemns on television today. But he forgets to dissociate himself from these schemes as their beneficiary”, Duca said.

She said Mocanu was forcing not only judges, investigators and state employees, but journalists too, so they “would not write about illegalities occurred during her arrest”.

Eugenia Duca said she is very dissatisfied that the European Court for Human Rights made a decision in her favour in 2009, but authorities do not hurry to rehabilitate her.

Sergiu Mocanu said later he has nothing to do with Duca’s arrestment. “I think Duca mixed up something, and, on the contrary, she should involve in our campaign against the mafia in the Republic of Moldova”, Mocanu said.

Infotag's dossier: Duca said she was deprived of her property the trade center Chris by virtue of many mafia-controlled nets. Her case last 11 years, during which some incidents occurred – some attempted murders were made against her and her grandson was kidnapped. Also many arrests occurred, and someone dropped a grenade in her apartment. The European Court for Human Rights obliged the Republic of Moldova in 2009 to rehabilitate Eugenia Duca and to give her property back.