Moldovan Intelligence

The director of the Moldovan Intelligence and Security Service, SIS, Alexandru Musteata, said on Monday that his institution he leads and the Prosecutor's Office for Combating Organised Crime and Special Cases, PCCOCS, had dismantled an FSB spy network in the country.

The director of the Moldovan Intelligence and Security Service, SIS, Alexandru Esaulenco, resigned on Monday amid the detaining scandal regarding the former pro-Russian president, Igor Dodon, for corruption and high treason to Russia.

The Alliance for the Union of Romanians, AUR announced on Monday that it plans to open branches in neighbouring Moldova as part of its campaign to reunify the country with Romania.

The AUR, which has 47 MPs in the 465-seat Romania parliament, is a nationalist party with a religious-based, anti-LGBT orientation and wants to impose a conservative, "patriotic" education system.

The Moldovan intelligence service, SIS, on Wednesday said it had broken up a paramilitary group that had links to the pro-Russian separatist cause in eastern Ukraine.

The SIS said the group had been under counter-terrorist surveillance for over a year, and the SIS had in the meantime established connections between its members and mercenary entities in eastern Ukraine.

Human rights organisations in Moldova, the Center for Legal Resources of Moldova and Promo-LEX human rights association, on Thursday issued a joint declaration, protesting over the rights violations of seven detained Turkish nationals who it is suspected will be deported to Turkey.

A former senior manager of Russian energy company Inter Rao, Karina Tsurkan, who was arrested in Moscow in June for alleged espionage, told news website Meduza that she is still unsure about the charges against her. 

After two months at the head of the Moldovan Intelligence and Security Service, SIS, Vitalie Pirlog handed in his resignation stating that he wanted to return to Interpol, which he had left in December last year.

He explained that it is his "desire to continue important reforms at the initiation of which I participated in the Interpol File Control Commission."