Today the representatives of OccupyGuguță community have submitted a request to the General Prosecutor's Office concerning interceptions and special investigative measures regarding some citizens. They ask for a reply whether OccupyGuguță members have been surveilled or not, IPN reports.
Activist Andrei Cebotari has said that the request comes in the context of the statements of the chairman of the Parliamentary Commission national security, defense and public order, Chiril Moţpan, who presented on Friday a list of the people whose conversations were intercepted, among them experts, teachers, journalists and activists from different areas. The community representatives urged the persons targeted in the interceptions to submit such requests.
"Among them there is are an impressive number of OccupyGuguță members, who are here today - Vitalie, Andrei, Vlada. In this context we will submit this request to the Prosecutor's Office, asking to confirm or deny this information. We count on the Prosecutor's Office to be as transparent as possible. We urge them not to conceal this information, because, if they reply that our calls have not been intercepted, but within a month or two, other information may be published, these prosecutors will be held criminally liable”, stressed Andrei Cebotari.
After the statements of the chairman of the Parliamentary Commission on national security, defense and public order, Chiril Moţpan, the Anticorruption Prosecutor's Office/ PA came provided clarification. According to the PA, the criminal prosecution for illegal collection of the information protected by law without a person's consent, with the use of special technical means to covertly obtain information is carried out. Four investigating officers, including a subdivision chief from the National Investigation Inspectorate of the General Police Inspectorate, and three prosecutors are suspected.
The Information and Security Service denied the claims made in the public space about the alleged involvement of the institution in the interception of media representatives, opinion leaders and politicians.
