The head of the Parliament’s Legal Department, who was suspended from office and is investigated for treason, had access to all the documents circulating in the legislature, including the secret ones, Ion Creangă’s inferiors, MPs and sources from the Security and Intelligence Service (SIS) told RFE/RL’s Moldovan Service. According to the sources, the Department’s head regularly took part in closed meetings in Parliament, including with representatives of the SIS. At the same time, the official had access to information classed as a state secret, Form 1, until January 2025. This form is offered to the most important state officials, starting with the President, Speaker, MPs, prime minister and Cabinet members and ending with the SIS chief, the NAC director or the governor of the National Bank. However, Creangă’s position is not on the list of those with access to Form 1, IPN reports.
SIS employees who know details about how Ion Creangă purportedly cooperated with the Russians said that he recently furnished these with information about the security and economic cooperation agreement between the Republic of Moldova and France, signed in March in Paris by President Maia Sandu and her French counterpart Emmanuel Macron.
For more than a year, the SIS monitored the work of the head of the Parliament’s Legal Department, suspecting him of cooperation with Russian intelligence services. On the day of his detention, many of his inferiors and even MPs with whom he worked were shocked by the news. Creangă had worked for the Department for more than 30 years, and since 2009 he had managed it and had over 20 people under his command.
The Parliament Speakers of all the legislatures since Independence consulted with Ion Creangă, and MPs’ draft laws did not pass without an opinion from him. Sources in Parliament and the SIS told RFE/RL’s Moldovan Service that, after his detention, the SIS director allegedly had a discussion with Creangă’s interiors. They received answers to all their questions regarding the accusations brought against Creangă and the way he supposedly interacted with representatives of the Russian Embassy in Chisinau.
Oazu Nantoi, MP of the Party of Action and Solidarity, who worked alongside Creangă on this platform, told Radio Free Europe that what happened recently is a “war between the intelligence services”. He describes him as a person who had access to all the information and documents circulating in Parliament. “He was very competent. The MPs consulted with him on legal matters related to internal procedures. He knew how to make a bill better from a legal point of view,” stated Nantoi.
Former Liberal-Democratic MP Maria Ciobanu said that she was not surprised by the accusations brought against Creangă. “I saw that he knew how to get into all Parliament Speakers’ good graces. Today he interpreted a law, an amendment, a decision, and tomorrow, if another President was installed, the interpretations were totally different,” Ciobanu posted on her Facebook page.
