Iurie Rosca aimed to annihilate Vlad Cubreacov as political leader, former PPCD leaders say

Besides the intention to escape from prosecution and to incite the population to come to demonstrations, Iurie Rosca had one more goal – to annihilate Vlad Cubreacov as a political leader. Such statements are contained in the last part of the interview “One Million for Vlad (IV)” with the two former activists of the Christian Democratic People’s Party (PPCD), Ion Neagu and Sergiu Burca, given to the paper “Jurnal de Chisinau”. The interview centres on the disappearance of the PPCD vice president Vlad Cubreacov in 2002. “All the people saw Cubreacov taking Rosca’s place. Iurie Rosca also noticed that. And then, I’m sure, he had set a trap for Vlad Cubreacov, who walked straight into it,” Ion Neagu said. The cited source also said that when the trick was played over, the public turned its attention to Vlad Cubreacov. Then Rosca spread rumours that a nephew of Nicolae Serpul revealed that Vlad Cubreacov was hiding in Valentina Serpul’s apartment. It was enough as Vlad Cubreacov became totally dependent on Iurie Rosca’s word. “I remember that in the evening of 3 April 2005, when Rosca came and said: “So, guys, we have to vote for Voronin”, Vlad Cubreacov was the first to utter: “Yes, we certainly must”. He had already become Rosca’s shadow and fulfilled all his orders because he knew that Rosca had enough methods to blackmail him,” Ion Neagu said. Ion Neagu and Sergiu Burca say that the accusations of betrayal levelled against them by the PPCD confirm that the disclosures are true. The two are ready to take the polygraph test live on the television and online on papers’ websites. Asked why they requested protection from the law enforcement bodies, Ion Neagu said that he feels that Rosca will take revenge on him. “I know his habits. He is very revengeful and knows no other methods than “that one must be hung, this one must be shot dead, that one must get his head broken”, the cited source said. According to Sergiu Burca, after he had been threatened in 2006, he was afraid that the disclosures would affect his as well as Vlad Cubreacov’s children. “When I realized that they can break my head anytime, without thinking of my children, I decided that the people should know these things,” Sergiu Burca said. The two say that they assume political, moral and legal responsibility for the part they played in the trick. Speaking about the rumours that Iurie Rosca was seen in the presidential office discussing with Vladimir Voronin about Cubreacov’s “abduction”, Ion Neagu said he learned that Voronin assured Rosca through a third person that he must not worry as he will not lose his seat in the presidium until the New Year’s Eve. After Ion Neagu spoke in the Parliament and after the interview was published in Jurnal, Iurie Rosca and Vlad Cubreacov retorted neither in the paper nor on the television channel of the party, Jurnal de Chisinau says.