General Prosecutor Office instituted penal investigations on the case of 5 policemen kidnapped in Transnistria

General Prosecutor Office (GPO) instituted penal investigations on the case of 5 employees kidnapped by the force structures of the self-proclaimed Moldovan Nistrean Republic, is said in a press release of GPO, quoted by Info-Prim Neo. The penal investigations are effectuated by the exceptional penal investigations department of GPO. At present penal investigation actions are undertaken in order to find out the circumstances of the case and bringing the guilty persons to account. In another declaration, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration expresses its concern regarding the condition of the arrested policemen, because there is no information about their location and health. MFAEI considers these actions as “irresponsible” and as “a new defiance of the anti-constitutional regime and its force structures”. At the same time the Joint Control Commission, could not come to a common point of view, on June 16, regarding the arrest of those 5 policemen. According to Ion Leahu, member of the Moldovan delegation, the Transnistrian side tries through different actions to confirm the legality of the 5 policemen’s arrest. JCC will meet on June 20 to discuss this issue. The policemen were kidnapped on Wednesday, June 14, by the intelligence services of the self-proclaimed Nistrean Republic. Gheorghe Papuc, the minister of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Moldova said that those 5 policemen are working at the Police Office in Tighina, one of them being a member of a joint group investigating a murder.