Transnistria KGB withholds details of arrested journalist
Details of the detention of journalist Ernest Vardanyan shall not be made public till the end of investigation, Transnistrian leader Igor Smirnov stated during his meeting with U.S. Ambassador to Moldova H.E. Mr. Asif J. Chaudhry here.
"As the minister of state security has reported trolleybus me, the person concerned [Vardanyan] has been detained for violating the laws of the Transnistrian Moldovan Republic. My duty is to ensure the observance of international rights, namely to guarantee that a detainee is provided with a lawyer and that all legal norms are duly observed. The Transnistria Prosecutor has been requested to control that all actions must be within the legal frame", Smirnov told the U.S. diplomat in response to his request to comment the situation around the journalist, who was detained by the Transnistrian security on April 7 on suspicion of treason.
The press service of the Transnistrian ministry of state security (ex-KGB branch of USSR) in Tiraspol [now subordinated to Russia's FSB] is also refraining from commenting the case, so nobody can actually say concretely which state crimes are being incriminated to Ernest Vardanyan.
Earlier this month, the Transnistrian branch of the New Region press agency of Russia, which Vardanyan worked for, quoted the Transnistrian security service as saying that Ernest Vardanyan had allegedly started collaborating with his investigators actively, "confessing in everything... As a matter of fact, he had long prepared for a surrender to the law enforcement, but was only a few days late to do this".
The New Region also said the Transnistrian security hinted that Vardanyan, 33, had allegedly been long collaborating with the ministry, "but then it turned out that he had worked also for another party". The ministry did not elaborate which party it actually meant - Russia, Moldova, Romania or something else.
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