The head of the Party “Platform Dignity and Truth” (PPDA) Andrei Nastase said persons serving with the first deputy chairman of the Democratic Party Vlad Plahotniuc wiretap his phone, follow him and recently event intercepted his email. In a news conference at IPN, this noted that no person in Moldova can be sure of not being followed and of not having the private life violated in the current conditions in Moldova.
“I state with complete responsibility that today the so-called law “Big Brother”, which is perceived as one of the perfidious means of the arsenal of the criminal regime Plahotniuc, started to be applied before being adopted, promulgated and published. The private digital conversations and documents started to be accessed without authorization or with arbitrary authorization,” stated Andrei Nastase.
In a statement addressed to embassies, international organizations and public institutions, the politician says that none of those who have now an account on Gmail, Facebook, Odnoklassniki, Instagram, Yahoo, Hotmail, Viber, Whatsapp, Skype and others can have the guarantee that the state of Plahotniuc does not access the accounts, personal conversations, SMS messages, phone calls and other forms of communication anytime and arbitrarily, with or without the formalities being respected.
“By this statement, I ask the international institutions to monitor the current and possible violations of my constitutional rights and freedoms, of the rights of the protesting colleagues and of any citizen apart, while the media outlets - to inform the public opinion about these illegalities,” stated Andrei Nastase.
Stanislav Pavlovschi, ex-ECHR judge and deputy head of the PPDA, said the human rights are flagrantly violated in Moldova. “The case of Andrei Nastase is not single. My conversions were also tapped even if I, as a former ECHR judge, enjoy immunity for life. The level of wiretapping in Moldova is extraordinarily high, practically as in the U.S., where the population is of hundreds of millions. Should we sacrifice the human rights for the sake of achieving an abstract objective – stability?” he asked.
PPDA deputy head Chiril Motpan said the party’s chairman Andrei Nastase now faces a media attack aimed at him. This shows that nobody is safe in a captured state. The only solution to get rid of this phenomenon is for the whole society to create a common front and oppose the ‘criminal regime’.
