The Chisinau Prosecutor’s Office has closed the criminal case started over the kidnapping of former MP Vlad Cubreacov in 2002, IPN reports, quoting an article published in the newspaper “Panorama” on Wednesday.
The information was confirmed by Prosecutor General Corneliu Gurin.
According to “Panorama”, which makes reference to the Chisinau Prosecutor’s Office, during 11 years the investigation bodies collected 12 volumes with statements of persons who may have been witnesses to the ‘kidnapping’.
“There are more proofs showing that Vlad Cubreacov wasn’t kidnapped than evidence that would show the opposite,” prosecutor of the Chisinau Prosecutor’s Office Ion Diacov has told the paper’s reporter.
According to witnesses’ statements included in the criminal case, the politician’s disappearance could have been staged with the participation of the former chairman of the Christian-Democratic People’s Party Iurie Rosca in ordered to earn money and to make the political situation in Moldova tense.
Vlad Cubreacov refused to talk to the paper’s reporters on the issue.
Vlad Cubreacov disappeared on March 21, 2002 and was found about two months later near Ustia village, which is not far from the Transnistrian region.
