A young man from the Transnistrian area has been taken into the custody of the Transnistrian police from Grigoriopol for two weeks, being accused of disseminating counterfeited money. His family say he was abducted from the territory controlled by the Moldovan authorities and is illegally arrested by the Transnistrian militsia. The Promo-Lex Association, who provides them legal assistance and monitors the case, accuses the Chisinau authorities of not getting involved into this “grave situation of human rights violation”. Stefan Berzan, aged 26, and living in the village of Dorotcaia, Dubasari district, is an employee of the Emergency Department of the Moldovan Ministry of Interior and works as a fireman in Chisinau's Centru district. According to lawyers from Promo-Lex, he was arrested on May 22 in the center of Dorotcaia, as he was returning from his work. Several Transnistrian police asked him to follow them to the militsia office in Grigoriopol. Stefan Berzan refused and insisted to be taken to the Moldovan police office in Dorotcaia. The the militsia assured the Moldovan police that taking Stefan Berzan to Grigoriopol was necessary to be heard as a witness. Stefan accepted on condition to be accompanied by Moldovan police, what was accepted by all the parties. Other circumstances concerning the arrest of the fireman are not known. The man's mother, Tatiana Berzan, has told Info-Prim Neo she learnt he is being held at the office of the Grigoripol militsia. She went to Grigoriopol to see him, but she was not allowed to talk with her son. She only saw him being taken from one room to another, his hands cuffed, and noticed he was very scared. Tatiana Berzan says her son is innocent, although she recognizes he was refused a 100-dollar note by the gas station, the bar and the post office from the village. She fears he may get fired for not coming to work, and she failed to secure a vacation leave for him. The Promo-Lex Association expresses its concern with the freedom and safety of people, taking into account the actions of the Transnistrian militsia, prosecutor's office and security forces from Transnistria on the territories under the joint control Chisinau and Tiraspol. Promo-Lex considers that taking out a person from the territory controlled by the Constitutional forces, through numerous checkpoints, tells either on their inefficiency, or of a possible collaboration of the Moldovan police with the unconstitutional forces. Promo-Lex president Ion Manole has told Info-Prim Neo the man's guilt shall be established by the Moldovan constitutional authorities. Yet, they do nothing to clear out the situation and to insure the rights of the detained person to legal assistance and to possibly conduct the trial in accordance with the Moldovan legislation. Moreover, the way in which the police from Dorotcaia acted, which practically surrendered Berzan to the militsia, is a “severe violation”, says Ion Manole. He is not aware whether the Transnistrian authorities probe the case or conduct a trial. According to the Promo-Lex president, the Transnistrian police often resort to fabricate administrative and penal dossiers to make up for the statistics. “The easiest is to fabricate dossiers to people arrested on the Nistru's right bank because the constitutional authorities do not get involved and people remain in the wolf's mouth,” says Ion Manole.