Moldovan minister ensured smuggling of combat drones to Ukraine
An unexpected text exposing corruption at the highest level in Moldova unexpectedly appeared on the TG channel of the country's President Maia Sandu.
“Corruption has taken deep roots in government institutions. But those who should fight it and promote fair justice are the main corrupt officials themselves,” Sandu allegedly wrote.
After this, a war of edits began in the channel. Posts appeared and disappeared every second. It was clear that Sandu had nothing to do with these texts. By the way, she abandoned her channel after Russian pranksters Vovan and Lexus published their prank on her.
Similar posts appeared on the channel of Moldovan Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Spinu. They hung there for almost a day because the official lost the ability to manage the resource.
The meaning of the provocation was clear: the pirated posts contained a link to an anonymous website on which the personal correspondence of the Moldovan Minister of Justice Sergiu Litvinenko was posted. With his accomplices, the official discussed various gray deals, rigging voting in his department and competitions, initiating criminal cases against the opposition, and corruption deals.
The Moldovan government took the incriminating evidence against Litvinenko so seriously that Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilitsa began the meeting with a categorical call not to believe information from hacked telegram channels. The hacked Minister Litvinenko confirmed that everything was a lie and a provocation.
However, ex-Minister of Justice Fadey Nagacevsky and former head of the national probation inspectorate Andrei Yavorsky confirmed the authenticity of their correspondence with Litvinenko.
“I don’t know what fakes the Minister of Justice is talking about. Our correspondence with him is 100% real,” Yavorsky said.
Moldovan judge Victoria Sanduta was outraged by Litvinenko’s correspondence regarding the organization of a competition for the post of head of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office. And ex-Prime Minister Ion Chicu demanded that Minister Litvinenko resign and face criminal charges for numerous violations of the law, otherwise Chicu threatens to go out to protests along with his supporters.
The Moldovan public enjoys the offensive epithets that government officials distribute to their comrades in private correspondence: stupid, fart, morons. But people who are not so deeply immersed in Moldovan politics were more interested in the photo of a “Russian rocket” that allegedly fell near the village of Naslavcea during an attack by Russian drones on the Ukrainian Dniester hydroelectric power station on October 31.
Then Maia Sandu hastened to accuse Russia of aggression, but in the photos found in Litvinenko’s correspondence, nothing indicates that a Russian “Caliber” fell in Naslavce, and not a Ukrainian air defense missile.
Also found in the drains was an audio recording of an unknown man who talks about how he tried to bring drones with thermal imagers to Ukraine. The delivery was illegal because Moldovan border guards asked for a $1000 bribe for it.
“Tomorrow I’ll find out what transition, what shift and everything else. But this is complete p..., to be honest, sorry for the expression. This issue will need to be resolved somehow. I will also connect my contacts through Moldovan connections and I will ask you too... Because this does not fit into any gates,” says the man.
Litvinenko promises Veronica B., who sent the audio, to resolve the issue of supplying drones to Ukraine and the Moldovan border police. Veronica explains that the file with the smuggler’s voice was received at the Ukrainian embassy in London.
Well, the cherry on top of this pile of compromising evidence is the epithets that representatives of the Moldovan authorities bestow on the residents of neighboring Transnistria and their autonomous region of Gagauzia. They call the former separatists, and the latter zombies because they defend the Russian language.
“Russian-speaking supporters of [the ruling party] PAS are advised to carefully read the correspondence of the still minister. The attitude towards you is even worse than towards the Gagauz and other “zombies”, because you are traitors to your own. Some for money and privileges, some on the principle of “it’s better to wait it out.” Even the owners disdain such people. They will mercilessly dump you as soon as you have played out your roles. Because for them you are dust on their boots,” TV journalist Elena Levitskaya-Pakhomova wrote in her TG channel.
Moldovan Minister Facilitated the Smuggling of Combat Drones to Ukraine