Yesterday, on 4 November 2014, the so-called supreme court of justice in Tiraspol ruled to release Vitalii Beșleaga and Serghei Bevziuc from detention. On the same day, their lawyer visited the penitentiary in v. Hlinaia to inform them about the decision and demand their release.

Immediately after they were released from the prison in Hlinaia, and without any explanations, several unidentified armed individuals in balaclavas, who arrived at the penitentiary in vehicles without registration plates, abducted Vitalii Beșleaga and Serghei Bevziuc and left in an unspecified direction.

Relatives of the two businessmen learned today, on 5 November 2014, that they are being held in the preventive detention isolator in Tiraspol, and are charged on three accounts.

Their lawyer expects that, in the next 72 hours, they will be brought before a so-called local judge, who will decide on their eventual arrest.

Recall that the European Court for Human Rights had communicated the case of the two businessmen to the respondent governments. See details here.

For more information about the case of Vitalii Beșleaga and Serghei Bevziuc, co-founders of Varnița Unicum, please click here.

For more details, contact: Alexandru Postica, Program Director with Promo-LEX, Attorney at Law. tel: (22) 450-024, GSM: 069-104-851, email: [email protected].