At the end of last week, authorities responsible for ensuring state security intervened on the basis of operational information to detain suspected members of terrorist organizations, following an INTERPOL alert.
Among them was a 20-year-old citizen of the Republic of Georgia, for whom the authorities of the United States of America issued an arrest warrant for terrorism. Upon entering the Republic of Moldova, he was accompanied by another 19-year-old citizen of the Republic of Georgia, both passengers on the "Istanbul-Chișinău" flight.
The two were detained after disembarking from the aircraft and escorted for additional checks. As a result, SIS officers together with Border Police employees, found documents confirming their training in specialized military training centres, as well as multimedia materials with terrorist content.
We note that the Security and Intelligence Service is empowered to collect, analyze and leverage information about potential risks and threats to anti-terrorist security, obtained as a result of intelligence and counterintelligence activity.
The citizen wanted by INTERPOL was documented and placed in the pre-trial detention facility of the Chișinău Police Department, while the second Georgian citizen was declared inadmissible on the territory of the Republic of Moldova and was returned to the Republic of Turkey.
