The Transnistrian authorities have announced that they identified a man who is suspected of murdering former Communist leader from Tiraspol Oleg Horjan. This is a young man who was allegedly held in jail together with the ex-opposition MP, IPN reports.
The local press reported that the 30-year-old man was earlier tried for theft. After being set free, the young man and Oleg Horjan kept in touch. Moreover, they discussed before the latter was killed. The Transnistrian authorities consider the crime was committed with the aim of robbing Horjan not of murdering him and there are accomplices in this crime. The body of Horjan, who was stabbed for multiple times, was found in his house next to the open safe.
The suspect, Andrei Duminică, said that he hadn’t been in Moldova for over two months. Newsmaker.md came into possession of a video where Duminică shows his biometric passport with stamps applied when entering Romania on May 18 and the Schengen Area through a frontier post in Hungary on May 19, 2023. There are no data about his leaving of the Schengen Area in the passport.
A former opposition MP, Oleg Horjan was illegally held in jails in the Transnistrian region and was released last December. The Transnistrian ministry of the interior said that a criminal case was started over murder committed out of financial reasons.
Debates on the murder of Oleg Horjan on the parliamentary platform were set for Tuesday. Representatives of the responsible institutions will examine all the circumstances of this case and the measures taken by the Moldovan authorities. International organizations will be asked to help elucidate the case.
