At the current stage, the prosecution bodies haven’t identified the organizer and beneficiary of the helicopters that were assembled in Criuleni, IPN reports, quoting the Prosecutor General’s Office.
According to the PGO, the beneficiary is not on the territory controlled by the Moldovan authorities. This is a man aged 64, who is a former employee of a state institution with special work regime.
About ten persons worked in the hangar where the aircraft were found during over five years. They were transported from the Transnistrian region and worked throughout the week there.
The PGO will ask the Civil Aviation Authority, the Ministry of Defense and the Security and Intelligence Service to become involved in investigations.
The detained persons either didn’t make statements or made evasive statements. One of them said some of the helicopters were tested during short periods of time on takeoff and the operations entailed enormous risks to the life and security of the involved personnel.
