Vitalie Beşleaga and Serghei Bevziuc, co-founders of „Varniţa Unicum” enterprise, illegally detained for more than a year in the transnistrian region, have been released and are currently in Chișinău.

On 24 November 2014, in the interest of its beneficiaries Beșleaga Vitalii and Bevziuc Serghei, Promo-LEX Association sent an urgent request to the UN Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, asking the guaranteeing of fundamental rights and freedoms according to the national legislation and international human rights standards.

During the same period, a complaint was filed with the General Prosecutor’s Office of Republic of Moldova that called for initiating the prosecution against those responsible for the businessmen’s abduction on 4 November this year.

The details of the case are as follows: on 15 November 2013, Beșleaga Vitalii and Bevziuc Serghei were abducted by employees of the so-called “committee of inquiry of MRT”, with the use of physical violence. They were “accused” of offering a sum of money to decision makers from the secessionist administration so they would allow enterprises located on the territory of the transnistrian region to resume their activity. Subsequently, both victims were placed, for 10 days, in prison nr.3 from Tiraspol, in inhumane conditions. Next, they were placed in various „detention facilities” from the transnistrian region where they were „detained” in inhumane conditions and without the medical care required according to the medical prescriptions. Details here.

Moreover, on 4 November 2014, the so-called Supreme Court from Tiraspol ordered the businessmen’s release. However, immediately after their release from the prison from Hlinaia village, without any explanation, unknown armed persons in hoods, came to the prison in cars without license plates, abducted Vitalii Beșleaga and Serghei Bevziuc and took them to an unknown destination. Details here.

For more details, contact us: Alexandru Postica, Promo-LEX Association Program Director, Lawyer. tel: (22) 450024, GSM: 069104851, e-mail: [email protected]