The main suspect in the murder of a 32-year-old woman, who was found dead in a vehicle in Botanica district last week, was identified and put on the wanted list. He will be brought to justice immediately after he is caught, Minister of the Interior Andrei Năstase stated in a press briefing on July 14, IPN reports.
According to the minister, the operation to identify the suspect was difficult given the problems related to the national normative framework that makes the work of the police more challenging. The three-day operation was intricate as some of the individuals who still wear police uniforms leaked information, including false one, to the press controlled by the former regime.
The suspect is a 40-year-old man who was earlier tried in Russia for murder and in Moldova for burglaries. The woman and the man didn’t know each other and the crime was committed with the aim of robbing the woman, according to the police.
Igor Zglăvuță, who heads the Serious Crimes Division of the National Investigation Inspectorate, said the crime was committed by one person, not by a criminal group, in another place than the one where the victim was found. The body wasn’t dismembered as the press reported. The woman was strangled and didn’t have serious injuries on the body, except for a sign that shows she put up resistance.
General Prosecution Division chief Grigore Moga said a criminal case was started over deliberate murder based on material interests.
The woman, who was the mother of two, was discovered dead, with signs of a violent death, on the backseat of her minivan parked on a street in Botanica district of Chisinau.
