Ilie Cazac, the young man who was sentenced to 14 years in prison for espionage for Moldova by the secessionist authorities, wrote the second pardon letter to the Transnistrian leader Igor Smirnov. The first letter sent on August 1 was rejected because it would have been written incorrectly. “In the letter, Ilie wrote that he was arrested and convicted of espionage and asked a pardon. He did not say that he was guilty. But they did not like how the application was written and he received a refusal in a week,” the young man’s mother Stela Surchicean stated for Info-Prim Neo. She said that her son wrote another application that will be submitted the coming days. Stela Surchicean does not know in what condition her son is because Ilie is not allowed to talk about the detention conditions. “However, I every time give him medications for stomach, headaches and toothaches,” said the woman. A former employee of the Bender Tax Service, Ilie Cazac was arrested in March 2010. On February 9 this year, he was sentenced to 14 years in jail for state treason and espionage for Moldova. Several months earlier, in December 2010, journalist Ernest Vardanyan was sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment for the same offenses, but was pardoned four months later.