The Liberal Party (PL) accuses the leader of the Party of Socialists Igor Dodon of cooperating with the Federal Security Service (FSB) of Russia. According to the Liberals, Igor Dodon asked the head of the Federal Migration Service Constantin Romodanovski to expel the Moldovans working in Russia so that they return to Moldova and vote for the Socialists, hampering thus the country’s European course, IPN reports.
The leader of the PL Mihai Ghimpu told a news conference that Igor Dodon posted on his personal webpage an article about his meeting with the Russian official, where Romodanovski says that there are 230,000 Moldovan migrants who can be expelled, while Dodon asks him not to do this. This meeting is coded as the Socialist asks the opposite in fact. “Russia’s FSB, using cruelly such persons as Dodon, hits the Moldovans from Russia and from Moldova too because they have families at home,” stated Ghimpu.
The Liberal Party’s deputy head Valeriu Munteanu said that Constantin Romodanovski is a former KGB agent and a current FSB agent, while the institution he heads is a unit under cover of the Federal Security Service. The Russian intelligence services also control two organizations of the Moldovan migrants in Russia: the interregional trade union of employees of the construction sector, industrial organizations and related areas “Codru”, which is headed by Yevgeny Sokolov, who is the former head of the Department of Penitentiary Institutions of Moldova, accused of transferring detainees to Transnistria and of drafting them into the separatists’ army, and the Congress of the Moldovan Diasporas.
According to PL deputy head Veaceslav Untila, the Congress of the Moldovan Diasporas is based at the Embassy of Moldova in Moscow, where the firm that bought a large shareholding in Moldova’s Banca de Economii is also based. The Congress profits from the embassy’s functions in order to gain the confidence of the Moldovans in Russia and to influence them. The Embassy has been also involved in the controversial sale of diplomatic license numbers to Russian businessmen.
The Liberals also accused the Ministry f Foreign Affairs and the Bureau for Diaspora Relations of coopering with the diaspora associations controlled by the FSB, which they support including financially, and called on the Government to stop offering assistance to these organizations that sabotage the country’s European course. They also called upon the Security and Information Service to investigate those who work against Moldova, including the political leaders, and to furnish the information to the prosecution bodies, and requested the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to take measures to remove the FSB agents from the territory of Moldova’s Embassy in Moscow.