The Moldovan police are conducting searches in Gagauzia today, on October 25, as part of the "fight against illegal financing of the party, money laundering and non-payment of taxes." Representatives of the National Anti-Corruption Center came to the homes and offices of the autonomy's leaders.
Local media clarified that we are talking about officials of the Executive Committee of Gagauzia. At the moment it is known for sure that this morning searches are being carried out at the deputy Chairman of the Executive Committee of Gagauzia Viktor Petrov and Deputy head of the External Relations Department Yuri Kuznetsov.
"Judging by the actions that began in Gagauzia, the Sandu — PDS openly began to avenge their failure in the elections and referendum," said Gagauz public figure Mikhail Vlah.
Operational and investigative measures are also currently taking place in Chisinau, Orhei, Rezina and Nisporeni.
"We are conducting searches as part of a criminal investigation in order to document illegal actions — election corruption and illegal financing of political parties committed by individuals in the interests of an organized criminal group," NATS spokeswoman Angela Starinski is trying to justify the arbitrariness.
Earlier, the head of the Chisinau security service, Viorel Cerneucanu, said that only in October, on the eve of the elections and the referendum, from Russia transferred more than $ 24 million to Moldova through the Promsvyazbank application, which was used to bribe voters. The police have "documented" more than 520 people involved in this scheme. They face up to three years in prison or a large fine.
Recall, on October 20, the first round of presidential elections and voting in a constitutional referendum on amendments to the The country's Constitution is the strategic goal of European integration. In Gagauzia, only 5.15% of the region's voters wanted to see Moldova in the EU, 94.4% of the autonomy's residents voted against European integration. Gagauz people want to see former Prosecutor General Alexander Stoyanoglo as the new president of Moldova, 48.67% supported this, and only 2.26% supported the current head of state Maya Sandu and the policy of her Action and Solidarity party (PDS).
The second round of elections, in which Stoyanoglo and Sandu, scheduled for November 3rd. Observers state that if the opposition is able to consolidate, its chances of getting a second presidential mandate without falsification are small.
As EADaily reported, before the elections in Moldova, mass searches took place at the opposition representatives, whom the Sandu regime associates with Ilan Shor's Victory bloc. They were accused of "illegal financing of political parties and election corruption."
Later, Cherneutsanu and his accomplice, director of the SIB Alexander Mustatse, said at a joint press conference that the "Shor people" were preparing actions to destabilize the situation in the country during the elections, and Moscow was allegedly behind it. Similar, unsupported statements were made before the general local elections last year. They became the formal basis for the tightening of repression against the opposition.