Prosecutor General presents report on investigation into Vlad Cubreacov’s disappearance

The Prosecutor’s Office is making every effort to determine the circumstances in which the vice president of the Christian Democratic People’s Party (PPCD) Vlad Cubreacov disappeared, Prosecutor General Valeriu Gurbulea said at the Parliament’s meeting on December 6. The Prosecutor said that they are investigating the case, but there is not enough evidence to draw a comprehensible and final conclusion that would enable to prove or refute the version built on the statements of the two former PPCD members Ion Neagu and Sergiu Burca. The Prosecutor’s Office and the Ministry of Internal Affairs need more time to discover the circumstances, Gurbulea said. The Prosecutor presented the given information at the request of the Standing Bureau of the Parliament. At the session of questions and interpellations, the Christian-Democratic MP Stefan Secareanu asked the Prosecutor General and the Ministry of Internal Affairs to provide explanations over the road accident that occurred on 24 July 1999 near Bahmut settlement. One person was killed and another seriously injured in the accident. Secareanu said that according to press reports, the accident was caused by Sergiu Burca, who was MP at that time. No one was punished, while the case was hushed up, the parliamentarian said, demanding that the person to blame be held accountable. Also, Secareanu asked for information about the assassination of one of the former PPCD activists Valentin Ciobanu and about the murder of the former mayor of Drasliceni settlement Andrei Buzu, who was member of the same party. Cubreacov disappeared on 21 March 2002 and was found about two months later in the neighbourhood of Ustia village. Different statements were made on this case. Rosca and Cubreacov said that the abduction was organised by the Russian secret services. The leader of a Transnistrian nongovernmental organisation said recently that the former Minister of Defence Valeriu Pasat staged the kidnapping with the help of Russian services. Several years ago, the Tiraspol authorities said that they possessed evidence that the abduction was ordered by President Vladimir Voronin. The two former PPCD activists Ion Neagu and Sergiu Burca said freshly that Cubreacov’s disappearance was planned by the management of the party and its leader Iurie Rosca.