MP of the Party “Dignity and Truth Platform” Kiril Moțpan considers the state Republic of Moldova encourages criminal activities involving persons from the Transnistrian region. He says he reached such a conclusion following the Public Service Agency’s recent decision to issue licenses for the import of tobacco products to Transnistrian firms. So, the illegal schemes to smuggle contraband cigarettes to the EU were reactivated successfully: the interests of politicians and criminal bodies coincide,” Kiril Moțpan posted on the Internet.

“There are a number of Government decisions – No. 960/2017; No. 1001/2001; No. 815/2005 – that do nothing but facilitate and legalize smuggling through the Transnistrian segment. These decisions set down a simplified procedure for registering business entities of the Eastern districts of the Republic of Moldova with the Public Services Agency. When these businesses are registered, they can import anything (absolutely anything), without paying customs duties (everything is free) and without facing any restrictions (can bring used parts, expired goods, banned medicines, etc., which generally cannot be brought through other checkpoints),” said the MP, being quoted by IPN.

According to him, as the administrative line that delimits the Transnistrian region from the Western districts of the republic is not so well secured, these goods are later brought to the right bank of the Nistru. “This is the background that generates a number of security-related problems. With the assistance of corrupt Moldovan politicians, the Transnistrian separatists will develop new, illegal schemes to smuggle cigarettes to the EU,” concluded Kiril Moțpan.