Victor Catan
Moldovan PM chairs first meeting of commission mitigating flood consequences
July 20, 2010Prime Minister Vlad Filat chaired the first meeting of the national commission in charge of mitigating the consequences of floods on 19 July, the government's press service has said. Interior Minister Victor Catan said that overflows of the rivers Prut...
Moldova: 11 policemen, under investigation in Valeriu Boboc case
May 04, 201011 policemen were dismissed and put under criminal investigation in the case of Valeriu Boboc’s death, killed in the night of 7 to 8 April, 2009. The Ministry of Internal Affairs, Victor Catan, specified on Monday, during a press conference...
Over 20 Moldovan policemen suspected of maltreating protesters suspended
April 07, 2010Over 20 Interior Ministry (MAI) employees suspected of having maltreated participants in the last April riots have been suspended under an order by the interior minister. The list of names of these people was submitted both to the Moldovan leadership...
Moldovan policemen involved in violent reprisals against protesters to resign
April 06, 2010Moldovan Prime Minister Vlad Filat has asked Interior Minister Victor Catan to temporarily relieve of their duties the policemen who are suspected of having participated in violent reprisals against protesters on 7 April 2009, the government's press service...
Innovative way to fight corruption among police force in Moldova
February 24, 2010Interior Minister takes police officers to theater play, says "we're in deep crap" Interior Minister Victor Catan took police officers to a theater play today. The performance, called Made in Moldova, was written by famous editorialist and...
Moldovan opposition party leader Iurie Rosca fears reprisals
February 19, 2010The leader of the Christian Democratic Popular Party and a former Moldovan parliamentarian for nearly 2 decades, Iurie Rosca, has today stood up with a second loud statement during shorter than one week after a several-month-long silence. This time,...
Moldova-Ukraine border security to be consolidated
February 05, 2010The Republic of Moldova's Border Service will be invested with certain police plenary powers in order to further strengthen state border security, Minister of the Interior MG Victor Catan stated at a news conference today convened on the occasion of the...
Moldova: Filat Government gets parliament's green light for reform
September 28, 2009On Friday, Sept. 25, the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova voted confidence in the Government of Premier Vlad Filat and approved its work program called "European Integration: Freedom, Democracy, Prosperity". The Filat Cabinet received...
Names of candidates for Moldovan new government revealed
September 23, 2009On Wednesday, several websites, close to the ruling Alliance for European Integration, published what they called 'a tentative list' of candidates for ministerial posts in the new Moldovan Government the AEI is forming. As the Alliance had warned yet...