The Political Party “Our Party” (PPPN) denies the statements by the police, according to which members of the party staged the provocations before the July 31 protest, and describe these as calumnious and provoking. The PPPN leaders said they will demand that the prosecutor general should determine the legality of the wiretapping of telephone discussions and will sue the chief of the General Police Inspectorate for defamation and spreading of false statements. The reaction comes after Alexandru Panzari on August 1 said that members of the PPPN are suspected of being behind the provocations staged before the protest, IPN reports.
“Panzari admitted officially that members of an anti-Plahotniuc opposition party – we do not know how many of us - are wiretapped and followed. This is serious. If there is a criminal case against us, Panzari didn’t have the right to spread such evidence in public. If there is no such a case and he does not have the consent of the court of law, this is also serious,” PPPN deputy chairman Ilian Casu told a news conference.
In the same news conference, Sergey Urechenu, one of those who featured in the wiretaps presented by the police, said he does not understand how private discussions can be tapped in the absence of a criminal case. He discussed with a friend of his, who is apolitical and does not know what is going on in the political sphere. They spoke about an event that was to be staged near the Central Market of Chisinau, where activists of the PPPN were to disseminate the party’s newspaper with information about the electoral system change.
Another deputy chairman, Dumitru Chubashenko, stated this is a cheap provocation, while the police break the law by illegally tapping phones and then making the telephone discussions public. The police managers are a band that serves Plahotniuc. It is idiotism for members of a party to place banners in central Chisinau, where there are a lot of surveillance cameras.
The chief of the General Police Inspectorate Alexandru Panzari in a press briefing said that three members of “Our Party” started to be followed by the police after they spoke over the phone about the organization of provocations on the night before the July 30 protest. Following the telephone discussions between the three members of the party on the eve of the protest, banners and brochures denigrating the leader of the Party “Dignity and Truth” Andrei Nastase and boxes with diapers appeared on Stefan cel Mare Blvd.
