The Moldovan police detained two people who are believed to have received training and money in Moscow to vandalize governmental buildings in Moldova as part of a destabilization ploy. The first attempt took place last night, according to a press release from the General Police Inspectorate.
According to the police, last night a group of people threw paint at the main entrance of the Ministry of Labor building. Half an hour later, a similar attack happened at the Government building.
Two people were detained in hot pursuit. The suspects are a 21-year-old man, caught by the police in the Ștefan cel Mare Park, and a 20-year-old man, who was seized near the Parliament building a few hundred meters further away.
The suspects said that they are part of a group of 20 young people, recruited to vandalize state institutions in Moldova, with the aim of destabilization, and they testified that the fee was 5,000 euros for the Government building alone. One suspect said that he was responsible for recruiting other members for further training in Moscow, with the promise of being paid 500 euros a monthly each.
According to the police, all 20 flew to Moscow with a stopover in Istanbul, where they were met by a Russian citizen and accommodated in a hotel, and the next day at a training ground outside Moscow they were trained on how to foment protests in Chisinau, destabilization within them, guarding the instigating person and so on. They also received money and phones there.
Upon return to Moldova, they bought paint cans, gloves, sneakers and bags, and after carrying out the vandalism actions, footage was to be placed on Telegram as proof of fulfillment.
13 of the 20 people who went to Moscow have already been identified by the police, including a 26-year-old person responsible for the recruitment of youths going to the Russia.
Today, a series of searches were conducted at the homes of four people, where several boxes of paint, gloves, cards, cards, identity documents, which confirm their movements in the Russian Federation, as well as other objects that can serve as evidence, were seized in the criminal case.
