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On January 1, 2012, at around 7.15 minutes at post No.9 of the peacekeeping forces near Parata village, a conscripted Russian military performed gunshots with his service weapon in the direction of a car driver. At the wheel of the car was a resident of Parata village, Vadim Pisari, born in 1993, citizen of the Republic of Moldova. As a result, Pisari Vadim died at the emergency hospital in Chisinau.

On 4th of January 2012, the Russian Federation authorities based on the incident from the 1st of January 2012 initiated a criminal case according to the provisions of Article 109 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, homicide by negligence.

On 9th of January 2012 on the official website of the Russian Federation Ministry of Foreign Affairs was published an article in which was stated that the actions of Russian peacekeeper were in full compliance with the military regulations in force and respectively he had not committed any violation of the legal provisions. In this respect, the lack of an investigation conducted under all aspects and only a week after the incident, the Russian Federation authorities have publicly stated that the Russian officer who caused the death of Pisari Vadim is actually innocent. Further the Russian authorities only simulated an investigation into the incident.

On 9th of February 2012, following statements from several officials of the Russian Federation, the representatives of the deceased Pisari Vadim addressed the Russian Federation authorities an interpellation in which requested information on the death case investigation and interfered with a request to recognize the relatives of the deceased as representatives of the victim in the case “investigated” by the Russian authorities. On 12th of April 2012, the Russian Federation Prosecutor Office sent to the representatives of the deceased Pisari Vadim a response which informs that they do not recognize as representatives of the deceased Pisari Vadim his parents or the family appointed lawyer.

On 5th of June , 2012, the Pisari family lawyer put forward a second request to the Russian Federation Prosecutor’s Office in which once again requested to recognize the relatives as representatives of the victim. On 8th of August 2012, the Russian Federation Prosecutor’s Office sent a letter to the lawyer which informs that Russian legislation does not provide the possibility for the extradition of their own citizens to other countries for prosecution. Also confirmed the refusal to recognize the relatives of Pisari Vadim or the family appointed lawyer as representatives of the victim. Furthermore through this letter the family was not informed of the termination of the criminal investigation in regard to the Russian officer Cojuhari VG.

On 12th of December, 2012, the Pisari family lawyer sent a new complaint towards the Russian Federation Prosecutor’s Office in which reiterated the request to be informed about the stage of the investigation conducted by the Russian authorities and request to be recognized as representatives of the victim.

On 21st of December, 2012 on the official website of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs was published a commentary of the official representative Lucasevici A., which informed the public opinion that the criminal case examined by the Russian authorities was closed and the Russian officer Cojuhari V.G. was removed from criminal prosecution because in his actions were not observed constituent elements of a crime.

Thereby, almost one year after the incident and the initiation of the criminal prosecution, the Russian Federation authorities responsible for organizing and conducting the criminal investigations have demonstrated professional incompetence, total negligence for the minimum standards of an efficient investigation in the spirit of the European Convention, cowardice and fear to timely and publicly recognize the reached conclusions and adopted decisions. At the same time we consider that the Russian Federation investigative authorities only simulated an examination of the incident because they have reached exactly the same conclusion that was officially launched on the 9th of January , 2012, namely ,a week after the incident.

For details contact attorney Alexander Postica, Program Director Promo-LEX tel.069104851