Acting President Mihai Ghimpu has accused Interior Minister Victor Catan of following an order from Premier Vlad Filat in connection with the refusal to show to the reporters a host of archived files on Soviet-era deportees, Info-Prim Neo reports. Iurie Burca, department head at the Ministry of the Interior, said that the depository where the files were kept before being transmitted to the National Archive is also used by the Ministry to keep personal files of MoI staff as well as classified documents. So only authorized persons are allowed to enter that room, he explained. Minister Victor Catan said earlier that none of the 40,000 files related to the Stalinist deportations organized in 1930-1951 were lost. However, Mihai Ghimpu claims he has evidence that some of them were destroyed. He also maintains that the entire stock of investigative files was destroyed in 1999, when Victor Catan also served as Interior Minster. According to MoI archives, over 12,000 families were recognized as victims of political repressions.