Man asserts his son was killed by Voronin’s order

Piotr Melinic from Cretoaia, Anenii Noi, accuses the leader of the Communist Party Vladimir Voronin and his son Oleg Voronin of ordering the murder of his son six years ago. The man said that the current acting prosecutor general Andrei Pantea, who was then prosecutor of Anenii Noi district, and police employees hid the case and presented it as a road accident, Info-Prim Neo reports. Piotr Melinic told a news conference that in 2007 he cultivated 15 hectares of farmland, 10 hectares of which were leased. He said the land was situated in an area that held interest for the Voronin family and he was told to yield it up. As he didn’t comply, he began to be threatened. According to Piotr Melnic, on August 20, 2007, his son Victor was called by persons sent by the Voronin family to a local bar. There they started to quarrel and when Victor, together with several young men, tried to run away by a car, the police and criminal authorities chased him. He said there are witnesses who saw that gunshots were fired at the car. “The car overturned for several times and those who pursued the men caught up with them. They fired on my son and kicked him. They continued to hit him even when he was dead,” the man related with tears in his eyes. The other young men from the car remained alive. The man said that the medical examiner identified injury to the internal organs and a neck wound, but didn’t confirm it was a gunshot wound. “Prosecutor Pantea took part in the destruction of evidence. They destroyed even the car on which my son was,” stated Piotr Melinic. The case was presented as a traffic accident and said that the young man who died drove the car. Afterward, they started a criminal case against one of the men who was on the car and that man was put on probation. Piotr Melinic sought help from the National Anticorruption Council “Moldova Mea”. In the same news conference, the Councils’ head Fiodor Ghelici promised him he will make everything possible to find out the truth. He said that when a high-ranking official wanted earlier to get a plot of land and the owners didn’t want to sell it, pressure started to be exerted on them through the law enforcement bodies.