Chairman of public association says Interior Ministry gathers and fabricates compromising evidence

The chairman of the Public Association “My Moldova”, Fiodor Ghelici, says that the Ministry of the Interior has a specialised department that collects and fabricates compromising evidence by order, Info-Prim Neo reports. At a news conference on February 4, Ghelici said that this year his business partners from Germany and Lithuania have been interrogated by the local police over their relations with the Moldovan citizen Fiodor Ghelici, at the request of the Moldovan police made through Interpol. As he was not announced wanted and no legal action was taken against him, the chairman of “My Moldova” explains such actions by the fact that the law enforcement bodies try to obtain information that would discredit him from abroad. In a letter to the Minister of the Interior Gheorghe Papuc, Ghelici says that these actions harmed his image and reputation as he was presented to the foreign companies as a criminal. At a news conference held earlier, Ghelici said that he was warned by a person holding an important post in the Ministry that they received an order to discredit him and take legal action against him. He said that he was followed, his telephones were being listened and he could be even murdered Ghelici is convinced that he is being intimidated because he carried out his own investigation and tried to establish if the main shareholder of “Agurdino” SA Iurii Bogdanov was the target of a murder to order or the Interior Ministry invented the story in order to intimidate the foreign investor. Ghelici says that he got the impression that the Russian investors are hindered from coming to Moldova, while the European investors are encouraged. He said that during six months of activity in Moldova, the Russian investor from “Agurdino” was involved in 60 cases, nine of which are now investigated in Stockholm and six in Strasbourg. The Ministry of the Interior has not yet replied to the levelled accusations. At the same time, the spokeswoman for the Home Ministry Ala Meleca said that we live in a democratic state and that anyone has the right to say what they want.