Chisinau, December 9 (Infotag). Megadat.Com, one of Moldova’s leading companies specializing in telecommunications technologies, drew the attention of the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, European Union and Council of Europe to “the actions by the Moldovan National Telecommunications and Informatics Regulatory Agency (NARSI) aimed at liquidation of the company”.

Company director Igor Lupulciuc told a news conference in Infotag today that “NARSI unlawfully presses on fiscal and judicial organs with the purpose of strangling the company”.

Ion Musuc, Chairman of the Association of Telecommunications and Informatics Operators, accused NARSI of violating legislation at issuing license and of using the Agency’s own faults as a weapon against Megadat.Com. In due time, NARSI itself issued a license to the company, and it began working all right. Later, however, the Agency revoked that very license under a pretext that there was something wrong with the company’s name and address indicated in the document.

Now Megadat.Com is eligible to demand a new license within not earlier than 6 months, during which time it has no right to work. Moreover, NARSI warned: if you continue working without the paper, the State will expropriate your entire income, plus you shall be fined in the amount of 100% of the income, plus you will have problems at obtaining a new license.

Musuc said, “NARSI Director Iurie Tabarta holds simultaneously 3 state posts that are incompatible due to the conflict of interests: he is the NARSI Director, Chairman of the Teleradio-Moldova supervisory board, and a member of the Coordination Board for the Electronic Media. A person who is in charge of censorship may not hold a position of chairman of a public TV/radio company’s supervisory board”.

In his words, “a government, which allows for lawlessness from behalf of civil servants, sounds ridiculous when it claims an intention to root out abuse of office by these very servants”.