Ion Creangă (born 11 December 1962) is a Moldovan jurist and was the head of the Legal Department of the Parliament of Moldova until his arrest in July 2024 for espionage.
Ion Creangă | |
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| Born | 11 December 1962 |
| Alma mater | Moldova State University |
| Occupation | Jurist |
| Employer | Parliament of Moldova |
Early life
editCreangă was born in Gotești, Cantemir District. He studied at the Moldova State University (1987–1992) and obtained his PhD in 2000.
Civil service career
editCreangă is the head of the Legal Department of the Apparatus of the Parliament of Moldova. Also, he is secretary of the Commission for constitutional reform in Moldova.
On 30 July 2024, Creangă was caught red-handed "providing information to a Russian agent" and relieved of his duties.[1][2] The Parliament was raided in the process of the investigation.[3] As a result the Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Moldova, Oleg Vasnetsov, was summoned for an explanation to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Moldova on 1 August. It was reported that the assistant to the military attaché of the embassy had been caught with Creangă,[4][5] and this person upon deportation was named as Dmitri Kelov, who had been on the Joint Control Commission, a trilateral structure responsible for overseeing the situation in the security zone between Transnistria and territory under Moldovan control.[6]
External links
editReferences
edit- ^ "Moldovan policy aims to dismantle relations with Russia — Russian ambassador".
- ^ "Two Moldovan Civil Servants Detained for Spying for Russia".
- ^ "Moldovan Intelligence Agents Raid Parliament in Spying Probe". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
- ^ "UPDATE // Employee of the Russian Embassy, involved in the espionage scandal, expelled from the Republic of Moldova".
- ^ "Moldova expels Russian diplomat over espionage allegations".
- ^ "Cine este diplomatul rus expulzat din Moldova și ce legături are cu serviciile secrete" (in Romanian).
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