Ex-vice director of the Security and Intelligence Service (SIS) Valentin Dediu said wiretaps can be done through satellite with special equipment located hundreds of kilometers away and the sound is rather clear. In an interview for Radio Free Europe, Valentin Dediu said everyone can be wiretapped illegally, but the senior state officials are more exposed to such a danger. Such equipment is mainly sold by firms that are set up only to make money and are not registered appropriately, IPN reports.

According to the former SIS chief, it’s good that the Prosecutor General’s Office opened a criminal investigation into the recently revealed wiretaps. “Regretfully, there were firms that offered such equipment in our country. I’m not sure, but I think that it is possible to wiretap three-four mobile phones. Wherever the person is, this equipment enables to tap the conversations of this person with other people at a particular distance, with the help of a computer,“ said Dediu, adding that if such devices exist in Moldova, measures should be taken to see if Renato Usatyi is connected with those who can perform such wiretapping.

Asked if the publication of these wiretaps help or hamper the investigation, Valentin Dediu said they can both aid and impede as the persons take care not to discuss business matters or something else on the phone.

In the evening of October 19, the leader of the “Our Party” Renato Usatyi made public wiretaps of telephone conversations that are allegedly between Filat and Shor. In the last conversation, Filat tells Shor that the situation went out of control and it’s not known what will be there in the October 15 sitting of Parliament (when Filat was deprived of parliamentary immunity and was then arrested – e.n.) and advises him to leave the country. According to Usatyi, the telephone conversations were tapped with a spy application that costs at most US$300.