An audit is needed for recovering the property of ex-deportees. A special entity in the new Government responsible for the problems of ex-deportees could deal with this and other aspects. The subject was discussed in a meeting of President Maia Sandu and a group of former deportees and their successors, IPN reports, quoting the presidential press service.

“This body should consist of devoted persons who know the problem, historians who studied the subjects, jurists and descendants of the deported families,” said the President. Former deportees complained to the President that even if almost three decades have passed since the state undertook to do them justice for the sufferings through which they went, most of the problems remained unsolved.

Maia Sandu said the recovery of the goods confiscated from them when their families were exiled or the obtaining of a corresponding compensation is the biggest problem of the former deportees. “The people have to go to court to claim rights and are in litigation for years, while many of the documents requested by the authorities can be obtained with difficulty or exclude each other. De facto, the laws seems to be made not for, but against former deportees. Even the fate of a building that was earmarked for a museum of deportations is unclear,” stated the official.