Press Releases
01-04-2022
The Security and Intelligence Service jointly with the Prosecutor's Office for Combating Organized Crime and Special Cases (PCCOCS) is investigating a case on embezzlement committed at Mărculești International Airport by the management who ran the company in 2018. In addition to embezzlement, the management is suspected of tax evasion and money laundering. According to preliminary estimates, the damage caused to company and state budget exceeds 10 million lei. The documentation carried out by the SIS officers, in coordination with the PCCOCS,...
30-03-2022
The draft law on electronic identification and trust services, initiated by the Security and Intelligence Service, was approved today by the Cabinet of Ministers. The need to develop the draft law arises from the National Action Plan for the implementation of the EU – Moldova Association Agreement for 2017-2019, approved by Government Decision no. 1472 of 30.12.2016, according to which the SIS was appointed responsible for implementation of art. 255 of the Plan - development of the draft law to transpose the Regulation 910/2014 into national...
29-03-2022
During the day of March 29, 2022, following the consent of the Superior Council of Magistracy, officers of the Security and Intelligence Service jointly with the Anticorruption Prosecutor's Office and National Anticorruption Center carried out searches at the office, home, and vehicle of a judge from the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ), concerned in a criminal case on illicit enrichment committed by a public dignitary (art.330/2 para. (2) of the Criminal Code). In particular, the judge is suspected that, during 2014-2021, while exercising...
25-03-2022
In the context of the prohibition for men aged 18-60 to leave Ukraine under martial law, the processes of irregular migration on the green sector of the Moldovan-Ukrainian border have intensified. The process of border security monitoring, carried out in partnership with the Security Service of Ukraine, helped the SIS officers jointly with the representatives of the National Anticorruption Center and the Anticorruption Prosecutor's Office to annihilate a cross-border criminal group specialized in irregular migration and to catch 3 members in...
22-03-2022
The Security and Intelligence Service jointly with the Anticorruption Prosecutor's Office documented the alleged actions of trading in influence (art. 326 of the Criminal Code) committed by a former SIS officer, attempting to bribe an employee of the same institution with a managerial position. In fact, the former SIS officer is accused of transferring the money to an SIS employee, that holds a management position in the institution, in order to settle a criminal case. At the moment, he is collaborating with the criminal investigation body,...
22-03-2022
On Tuesday, the SIS officers and PCCOCS prosecutors detained six members of a cross-border organized criminal group, including three Border Police employees, in a cigarette smuggling case worth more than 2.5 million lei. This case is also investigated by the prosecutors of the Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) of Romania. The smuggled cigarettes were packed in about 285,000 packages and were transported to Romania, crossing the border near Ungheni, on January 2 and 3, 2018. When cigarettes were delivered to...
15-03-2022
Update: By SIS Director’s Order No.22 of March 15 , the list of online content sources spreading information that incites hatred and war, during the state of emergency, approved by the Parliament Decision No. 41/2022 , was completed with: indigolotos.info The Security and Intelligence Service reiterates its public call for the mass media to prevent spreading and immediately delete fake articles/ information and those containing hate speech and/or inciting violence. Also, the institution urges the society to get informed from official and...
14-03-2022
To the attention of the public authorities, Regarding the intensification of phishing attacks targeting e-mail accounts of public authorities, we recommend being very vigilant about your inbox messages, especially unsolicited mail coming from unknown sources. The links or attachments contained in such messages may infect your workstation with malicious code (viruses). Thus, we urge you to be guided by the following principles: Always check the source of incoming messages before opening links or attachments; Avoid opening links and attachments...
09-03-2022
The Security and Intelligence Service attests the irresponsible behavior of some citizens who undermine the peaceful coexistence of the multiethnic and multilingual society of the Republic of Moldova, by displaying and disseminating certain flags, graphic emblems, badges, uniforms, slogans and greetings. Therefore, in accordance with art. 9 lett. p) Law No. 619/1995 on state security bodies and art. 5 of the Law No. 54/2003 on countering extremist activity, the SIS carried out prophylactic measures regarding certain individuals, who...
04-03-2022
The Security and Intelligence Service jointly with the Prosecutor's Office for Combating Organized Crime and Special Cases (PCCOCS) and Internal Protection and Anti-Corruption Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs are investigating the actions of individuals who have recently proliferated in public biased and invented information about the Ukrainian war. The documented facts refer to systematic dissemination of such information via different types of media. The investigation revealed that these actions aimed to promote war among the...
26-02-2022
Information has been circulating that the Security and Intelligence Service has been evacuating ammunition and weapons from the arsenal of private gun shops and shooting ranges to a specialised warehouse. This information is not true and the apparent purpose of its dissemination is to create and maintain a state of panic in society. We urge citizens to remain calm, and respectfully advise to ignore all the anonymous, unverified sources of information, as well as to get informed from official sources, especially on national security matters....
26-02-2022
The Director of the Security and Intelligence Service issued an Order on February 26 to block two online sources promoting information that incites hatred and war during the state of emergency. Hence, the websites www.sputnik.md and www.gagauznews.md are to be shut down. The Order containing binding instructions has been sent to the National Registrar of the top level domain "md" and to providers of electronic communications networks and/or services to block immediately, according to law, the access of the users from the Republic of Moldova to...
25-02-2022
In the process of data collection on online sources inciting hatred, war and/or violence, the Security and Intelligence Service detected the website www.vkurse.md as it was disseminating information of foreign origin on the territory of the Republic of Moldova, justifying military aggression against the legally elected power in Ukraine. As a result, by SIS Director’s Order No.12 of 25 February 2022, pursuant to paragraphs 26-28 of the Directive No. 1 of the Commission for Emergency Situations of the Republic of Moldova, it was requested to...
25-02-2022
In the context of the regional security situation, there has been an exponential increase in the volume of fake news disseminated concertedly on all information platforms. Thus, according to the provisions of points 26 - 28 of the Directive No. 1 of 24.02.2022 of the Commission for Emergency Situations of the Republic of Moldova, the SIS requests the administrators of online content sources to refrain from publishing/distributing false information, as well as messages inciting hatred, mass disorder or war. We request all administrators of...
24-02-2022
Due to the regional security situation developments, the Security and Intelligence Service announces the rise of the terrorist alert level to moderate (yellow code), approved by the Order of the SIS Director No. 11 of 24 February 2022. In case of the moderate level of terrorist alert (yellow code), the competent authorities in the field of preventing and countering terrorism, within the limits of their attributions, undertake the actions required for the low level (blue) and additionally carry out the following measures: 1) concentrating...