Citizen Nicolae Boichenko, who said that he is a victim of concerted injustice, calls on the prosecutor general, the Ministry of Home Affairs and other responsible authorities to intervene and help him get his child back. He said that after his wife died, the local authorities decided to institute guardianship over his daughter in his absence without informing him so that his child remained in the care of foreign persons.

In a news conference at IPN, Nicolae Boicenco said that his wife needed treatment in Romania. To benefit from this, he decided to obtain Romanian nationality as a matter of urgency. For the purpose, they decided to divorce formally. Based on the court decision, their daughter, who was eight when the marriage was ended in 2016, remained in her mother’s care. “In the courtroom, I agreed as I didn’t want to traumatize my wife and child, given my wife’s serious state of health,” said the man.

According to him, as his home in Ialoveni was illegally sold, he periodically lived at his mother’s house in Bender and at his mother-in-law’s house in Calfa village of Anenii Noi district. His wife and their child lived in the municipality of Chisinau, where the child went to kindergarten. In the period, he took part in the child’s education and supported his family, including financially. On July 11, 2019, Svetlana Boichenko died at a center in Ceadîr-Lunga district. At that moment, the child was on vacation at the woman’s relatives in Calfa. Immediately after the death of his wife, whom he divorced formally, the behavior of those relatives towards him changed, becoming aggressive.

As they didn’t allow him to see his daughter, he had to go to the police. Later, he learned that the mayor of Calfa issued a decision to grant one of those relatives guardianship of the child in his absence and without his consent. He filed numerous complaints to state institutions and asked that the child should be returned to him, but nothing changed.

Nicolae Boichenko believes the mayor of Calfa, in collusion with the relatives of his former wife, are trying by different ways to influence public functionaries and the police so as not to be punished for abuse of power and falsification of documents. “By deceitful statements, by harming my honor and dignity, by violating the law, they continue to keep my daughter hostage, misleading the law enforcement agencies, the state institutions, the courts of law. I want to note that my daughter, being held hostage, is daily influenced to hate me. They invent all kinds of stories about me so as to distance the child from me,” he stated.

The man warns that the state institutions are obliged by law to defend the interests of the child and parent and to help integrate the children into the family. They are also obliged to become involved when it is necessary to hold accountable those who do not obey the law.