Iurie Rosca asked Romania to contribute $1m ransom for kidnapped Cubreacov, former Christian-Democrats say

Iurie Rosca, the leader of the Christian-Democrat People’s Party (PPCD), asked Romania to contribute a million dollars to help release Vlad Cubreacov, even though Rosca himself was the brains behind Cubreacov’s disappearance and knew exactly his location. These statements are contained in the second part of an interview with Ion Neagu and Sergiu Burca for Jurnal de Chisinau newspaper on the disappearance of PPCD vice president Vlad Cubreacov in 2002. According to Ion Neagu, in early May 2002, Rosca went to Bucharest to see the then president of Romania Ion Iliescu. All he managed to do was to talk to a presidential counsellor, whom he informed that some kidnappers asked a million dollar ransom in return for Cubreacov’s release, and to prove that he was still alive, gave Cubracov’s wife some of his belongings. “It was a scheme to mislead Bucharest”, Ion Neagu claimed. Neagu said Rosca was not able to get the requested money, adding “in all probability the guys in Bucharest didn’t buy it”. For his part, Burca claimed the Christian-Democrat leader also flew to Georgia for money, but failed again. In the third part of the interview promised by Jurnal de Chisinau on Friday, November 23, Ion Neagu and Sergiu Burca will make disclosures about Rosca’s trip to Tbilisi, about how Cubreacov was driven to Transnistria and whether there was or not a conspiracy of silence between Rosca and President Vladimir Voronin. The two interviewees said last week that Cubreacov’s kidnapping was staged by Rosca and other Christian-Democrat top members, who kept him hidden in a house belonging to MP Valentina Serpul.