Former SIS officer accused of illegally tapping phones
The Prosecutor General's Office (PG) completed the investigations over
the second legal case started against a former division head of the
Security and Information Service (SIS), who is accused of wiretapping.
The case was sent to court, Info-Prim Neo reports.
The suspended SIS officer is accused of ordering listening to the
telephone conversations of a SIS colonel in May-August 2009, in the
absence of a court authorization. In that period, the victim worked as
consultant with the Moldovan Embassy in Romania.
In the first case that was remitted to court on October 22, the
prosecutors accuse the former SIS officer of ordering taping the phones
of one former and four current officers of the SIS in November 2008 –
September 2009. At the PG's request, the lieutenant colonel was
suspended from post.
The former SIS officer is also suspected of taking part in the tapping
of political leaders' phones. The PG is now examining the given cases.
Late last year, the PG sent to court a case opened against employees of
the Ministry of the Interior over violation of the right to secrecy of
telephone conversations, misconduct in office, abuse of power and
forging of public documents. According to the prosecutors, there were
tapped the phones of nine persons, including Veaceslav Untila and
Serafim Urecheanu, who were then MPs.