PLDM accuses police of holding car carrying election promos

The Liberal Democratic Party (PLDM) accuses the police of groundlessly holding up a private car of the party's treasurer carrying election ads. The Chisinau police commissariat says it was a routine checkup, Info-Prim Neo reports. PLDM secretary general Victor Rosca, who's also the treasurer of the party, Wednesday told a news conference he was held up by the road police “to check his papers”. Rosca says he was followed by a car until he was stopped by the police. “The reason of Iacob Gumenita (head of Chisinau police – e.n.) was that the materials would have been fake, as the electoral ads may be counterfeited,” he said. A PLDM member, lawyer Vitalie Nagacevschi, says he went to the place and asked the police to write search and detention minutes. “No minutes have been written. When I asked him to do so, Mr. Gumenita started to negotiate and said he would file the minutes only if there were irregularities discovered,” Vitalie Nagacevschi said. He says he needed the minutes to sue the police for damages. According to the barrister, “there might be instructions.” “The practice of involving the police in the political process goes on stepping up,” he said, urging the authorities to renounce these intimidations, because the voters' opinion are thus influenced. When asked by Info-Prim Neo, the spokesman of the Police Commissariat, Tudor Capatana, has said the police were performing routine checkups, since “the car was filled with promo materials and was suspicious.” He says the first reason for detaining the car was that Victor Rosca did not have documents confirming the origin of the ads. “When the papers were produced, the car was set free,” the officer said.