Officers of Penitentiary Institutions Department released

The two officers of Moldova’s Department of Penitentiary Institutions were set free yesterday evening, Deputy Prime Minister for Reintegration Victor Osipov has told Info-Prim Neo. “We discussed with the Transnistrian authorities and managed to bring the officers to Chisinau, even if not as quickly as we wanted. Yesterday evening, they were met by the head of the Department of Penitentiary Institutions,” said Victor Osipov. The Deputy Prime Minister also said that they are yet to establish what happened and on what charges they were arrested. On October 7, the two officers were arrested by the Transnistrian militia after they came off duty at penitentiary No. 8 situated in Bender town. In several hours, they were handed over to Transnistria‘s state security ministry – the MGB