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31.10.2007 PRO EVROPA CLAIMS IT KNOWS HOW CUBREACOV WAS KIDNAPPED

31.10.2007 PRO EVROPA CLAIMS IT KNOWS HOW CUBREACOV WAS KIDNAPPED

Chisinau, October 31 (Infotag). The Pro Evropa association of Transnistria maintains it disposes of information and documents on the involvement of the former Information and Security Service (ISS) Director Valeriu Pasat and Transnistrian minister of state security Vladimir Antiufeyev in the kidnapping of MP Vlad Cubreacov (CDPP) in 2002.

Pro Europa chairman Boris Assarov told a news conference in Infotag today that his organization had received information from “sources, whose testimonies have been duly documented and submitted to the Chisinau City Prosecution Office”.

Assarov maintained, “In 2002, after Valeriu Pasat had been dismissed as the ISS Director, he moved over to Tiraspol, where he maintained contacts with Antiufeyev. In the spring of that year, a situation had developed when, on the one hand, the Moldovan Communist authorities had agreed with Moscow upon exerting pressure on Transnistria, and some of the pressure measures even started to be used. On the other hand, the Chisinau’s anti-national policy in such a delicate sphere as education had led to wide-scale street protesting by the Christian Democratic Popular Party supporters. The confrontation in Chisinau, triggered by the Communists’ blunders, was strongly in the interests of Tiraspol. And when street manifestations in Chisinau began subsiding, a plan was worked out in Tiraspol that would enable breathing in a new life into the confrontation. One of the elements of that plan was the memorable kidnapping of the CDPP Deputy Chairman MP Vlad Cubreacov”.

According to Assarov, the plan was worked out by Valeriu Pasat and realized by the Transnistrian ministry of state security agents in Chisinau. As a result of the kidnapping, the confrontation between the Moldovan authorities and the opposition sharpened again, and the shadow of that crime fell on the Chisinau authorities. As Cubreacov was a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, his disappearance stirred up a negative reaction of the Council of Europe leadership. Under their pressure, the official Chisinau had to request Moscow to order the Federal Security Service (with Valeriu Pasat being its agent at the Republic of Moldova) to release parliamentarian Cubreacov.

Pro Evropa believes there exist at least 2 reasons why the half-forgotten Cubreacov affair is now being debated with a new force: first, Valeriu Pasat may have decided to cover up all his tracks that may lead to initiating new proceedings against him in the future, and, second, the Moldovan Communist authorities may be interested in throwing the Christian Democratic Popular Party out of the game as the 2009 parliamentary election is approaching.

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