Tiraspol avoids combating criminality with the help of official Chisinau

[Info-Prim Neo article from the series “20 years of the start of the war. When should we expect peace?”] Repeat from February 23 Tiraspol is not ready to cooperate with Chisinau in combating criminality owing to the legal cases started against persons who broke the Constitution of Moldova. Deputy Minister of the Interior Iurie Cheptanaru, coordinator on behalf of Chisinau of the working group for cooperation in combating organized crime, has told Info-Prim Neo that the members of the group representing Transnistria are willing to cooperate only in exchanging information. “We managed to establish a daily exchange of information concerning murders, thefts and robberies. We worked together in discovering a number of crimes. We help them if they seek assistance. We offered them our database and provided information about wanted persons. We move on,” said the deputy minister. He also said that they did not yet achieve significant results in jointly arresting offenders and transferring them from one side of the Nistru River to the other because of the legal cases opened by the Prosecutor General’s Office against Transnistrians who violated the Constitution. There is no joint plan of action for 2012. Iurie Cheptanaru said the working group aims to deal with the same issues and to maintain public order all over Moldova. The Tiraspol-Chisinau confidence building working groups resumed work in 2010 following an agreement reached by the constitutional authorities and the secessionist ones in a meeting. [Irina Turcanu, Info-Prim Neo]