The leader of the Christian-Democratic People’s Party (PPCD), Iurie Rosca, claimed he had borrowed the ransom money for Vlad Cubreacov’s release from a Georgian friend, in hope of fooling Bucharest into paying the requested sum of one million dollars. These statements are contained in the third part of an interview with Ion Neagu and Sergiu Burca for Jurnal de Chisinau newspaper on the disappearance of PPCD vice president Vlad Cubreacov in 2002. According to Ion Neagu, former PPCD secretary general, Rosca talked his friend Irakli Melashvili into confirming that he had given the million for Cubreacov’s release. To make the story more real, Rosca alleged the money had to be repaid without delay and that he pledged his life on it. The message was conveyed to Bucharest, said Ion Neagu, adding that, as far as he knew, Rosca didn’t get the money requested from Bucharest. Sergiu Burca, ex-vice-president of the party, doesn’t exclude that towards the end of the scheme there were some deliberate leaks that reached the Security Intelligence Service and the press. Ion Neagu says it is very suspicious that the law enforcers haven’t initiated serious investigations into the case and that the accomplices have been summoned to the prosecutor’s office just recently. “I suppose it finally happened only because Iurie Rosca angered Voronin this summer by refusing to form alliances with the Communists in several district councils”, Burca says. The two interviewees added that Valentina Serpul, who hosted Cubreacov in her apartment during his ‘abduction’, got in exchange for her services a rapid entry into the party and a front place on the list for the 2005 elections, which aroused controversy among other top party members. Her brother, Nicolae Serpul, was also put forward by PPCD for city councillorship. In the next part of the interview promised by Jurnal de Chisinau on Tuesday, November 27, Sergiu Burca and Ion Neagu will make disclosures about Cubreacov’s remorse after he left his hideaway, about Rosca’s plan to intimidate Cubreacov and about the reasons why they asked the state for protection after they testified at the prosecutor’s office. In the previous part, the interviewees alleged that Iurie Rosca requested a million dollars in ransom money to free Cubreacov, even though Rosca himself was the brains behind his disappearance.