Press Releases

Alexandru Musteața, Director of the Security and Intelligence Service, had a meeting with rectors of higher education institutions from the Republic of Moldova. The discussions concerned a possibility of cooperation that would bring the academic environment closer to the security system needs, as well as the SIS transparency for a wider participation of the civil society in development of public policies in the field of national security. During the meeting, the SIS Director suggested initiating a national campaign for students, called "...

SIS officers, together with Customs Service officers and PCCOCS prosecutors, annihilated an attempt to smuggle out of the country through Costești customs post – approximately six million cigarettes of various commercial brands with domestic excise stamps. On Wednesday morning, August 10, a truck carrying wood charcoal from Ukraine to Romania drove in the control area of the Costești customs post. As the truck was in transit, it had a customs seal on the trailer – the contraband was disguised there. Based on the operative information, customs...

The graduation ceremony of a new class of intelligence officers took place today, June 17, at the National Institute of Intelligence and Security "Bogdan, Întemeietorul Moldovei" of the SIS. The event took place in the presence of the SIS leadership and professors. Alexandru Musteața, Director of the Security and Intelligence Service, congratulated the young people for the choice they made, and the results obtained during their studies, reminding them that both the institution and society have high hopes for their potential and intelligence in...

The Security and Intelligence Service jointly with the Prosecutor's Office for Combating Organized Crime and Special Cases and the Customs Service, on May 17, executed search warrants in Chișinău and outside, in a case on cigarette smuggling. As a result of 23 searches on commercial points, homes, and means of transport of the persons named in case, the officers found and seized: 200 thousand pieces of tobacco products, money in US dollars and euros, of unknown legal origin, the equivalent of over 240 thousand lei, and two means of transport....

On May 11, 2022, officers of the Security and Intelligence Service jointly with the prosecutors of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office and employees of the Internal Protection and Anti-Corruption Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs conducted searches at homes, offices, official and personal cars of three employees of the National Inspectorate of Public Security (INSP). The criminal prosecution actions are carried out within two criminal cases on illicit enrichment (art. 330/2 para.1), false statements (art. 352/1 para. 2) and...

Officers of the Security and Intelligence Service, employees of the Border Police and Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office, jointly with Romanian authorities, dismantled a cross-border organized criminal group specialized in smuggling, consisting of 15 people. Members of the group had well-defined roles and, in order to carry out the criminal activity, they operated jointly with another group that was taking over smuggled goods. The activity of the criminal group was investigated during six months. In this period of time, authorities documented...

The Security and Intelligence Service of the Republic of Moldova notifies the operators (ministries, other public authorities or institutions and legal persons, managing facilities included in the National Nomenclature of Critical Infrastructure, regardless of the property type and legal form of organization), that on 7 April 2022, the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova adopted on second reading the Law on modification of the Contravention Code of the Republic of Moldova no. 218/2008. Thus, the Code was supplemented with art.365/4 “...