The minister of justice does not need to resign following the dissemination of alleged conversations according to which Sergiu Litvinenco fixed the tender contest to fill the post of chief of the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office, said PAS MP Mihail Druță. According to him, the hacking of officials’ accounts is a provocation planned by fugitive thieves in cooperation with Russian intelligence services. For his part, former ECHR judge Stanislav Pavlovski said the representatives of the government should insist that the law enforcement bodies shed light on this case, IPN reports.
The publicly spread conversations involving Minister of Justice Sergiu Litvinenco were presumably hacked from the minister’s Telegram account. New alleged Telegram conversations involving presidential adviser Dorin Recean were disseminated on Friday. The representatives of the government said the hacking of Telegram accounts is an attempt by Russia’s FSB to upset the European course of the Republic of Moldova.
“After years of political anarchy in the Republic of Moldova, after years of anarchy in the justice system, a President and a government that aim to primarily do the justice sector reform came. It was considered that no change can take place in any area if order is not done first in the justice sector. This reform does not suit the thieves who robbed this country. Our thieves allied themselves with the intelligence services of the Russian Federation and only this alliance could plan such a provocation. Sergiu Litvinenco should no way resign. This is what this alliance for war and stealing wants – to attack the minister of justice,” PAS MP Mihai Druță stated in the program “Ghețu Asks” on TV8 channel.
In the same connection, ex-MP Vitalia Pavlichenko and former ECHR judge Stanislav Pavlovski said the law enforcement agencies should throw light on this case as swiftly as possible so as to prove or refute the authenticity of those conversations.
“Do we have institutions that can assess the alleged revelations? If we have such institutions, something like this shouldn’t have happened. There are doubts about the ensuring of transparency and objectiveness of contests, the absence of influence peddling, pressure. Such doubts have existed long in the public sphere. It is hard to build such an image and it is easy to lose it. The goal is to obstruct the government, to prove that those who govern us are not different from those who governed in the past, that there are two levels of discussions – public and private. This is a component of the hybrid warfare. If our institutions are unable to deal with this, they should seek help from Romania so as to determine what’s true and what’s false,” stated Vitalia Pavlichenko.
“A criminal case should be started. The telephones of those involved in those conversations should be seized and the discussions should be compared. The witnesses involved in these discussions should be questioned so as to see if they made false statements. It is easy to do this. If the government is sincere and pro-European, it should be interested in shedding light on this case the first. If the person is to blame, this should be held accountable. If it’s determined that the conversations were forged, they should tell us that the person is innocent,” said Stanislav Pavlovski.
Yesterday, Sergiu Litvinenco admitted that following the hacking of his personal Telegram account, fragments of his personal conversations were made public. He said a number of the conversations were truncated and taken out of context. Also yesterday, representatives of the presidential institution said conversations involving presidential adviser Dorin Recean were fabricated.
