Many materials that had to do with the interception of communications and surveillance of different persons - civic activists, journalists, opposition supporters, as it has been recently revealed by MP Chiril Moţpan, have been destroyed to get rid of the evidence. The statement was made by the former head of Directorate 6 for Protection of Witnesses within the National Inspectorate of Investigations, Anatolie Macovei. According to him, the order to destroy these materials was given within a department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, after the former leader of the Democratic Party, Vladimir Plahotniuc had announced that he was leaving the country, and the former Interior Minister Andrei Nastase knew about the destruction of evidence, reports IPN.
"Directorate no. 5 and Directorate no. 7, which carried out some surveillance measures, were connected online to the tapped telephones through which surveillance took place. The rest of the telephone intercepts were received on some records from SIS, which were listened to mainly by employees of Directorate no. 5. Some selections and reports were made based on these records, which afterwards were handed over to the prosecutors ", said the former head of Directorate no.6 for Protection of Witnesses on " Black box "program, on TV8.
Anatolie Macovei states that each of the surveilled persons, people with active civic position and journalists, was selected at Vladimir Plahotniuc’s business residence - GBC. "Heads from the Ministry of the Interior, the Information and Security Service, the Prosecutor's Office, were invited to attend meetings and received specific instructions regarding each person," says Anatolie Macovei.
According to him, the persons who conducted the surveillance had a well-defined purpose: to detect whether the targeted persons had any activity in contravention of the law in order to hold them responsible or to distort their behavior and statements in order to make up an illegal activity which would have led to criminal prosecution.
Ion Guzun, expert of the Center for Legal Resources says that in 2013 there became effective amendments to the Criminal Code which greatly restricted the possibilities for interceptions. "Very rigorous criteria have been established, including informing the person for six months about their communications’ interception, as well as other filters," explained Igor Guzun.
A few days ago, the chairman of the Parliamentary Commission on National Security, Defense and Public Order, Chiril Moţpan, presented a list of persons whose communications were allegedly intercepted. The list consists of teachers who supported the DA Platform, but also experts, journalists and activists, including Petru Macovei, Arcadie Barbăroșie, Lilia Carasciuc, Stefan Gligor, Dumitru Alaiba, Sergiu Tofilat, Vladislav Gribincea, Natalia Morari, Angela Gonța, Mariana Rață, Ion Terguță, Valentina Ursu etc.
