The Police Initiated, at Their Own Initiative, an Investigation into the Trailing of RISE Moldova journalists. Natalia Morari, in Her Turn, Makes an Alarming Confession: ‘This Man Says They Were at My Mother's House...’

After RISE Moldova published on 31 October an article stating that journalist Liuba Sevciuc was trailed by a ‘professional provoker’, journalist Natalia Morari from TV8 wrote on a social network that she did not feel safe because ‘this man says that they - those from the Special Operations Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs - were at my mother’s house, too’.

RISE Moldova wrote that the tracking of reporters allegedly started on the next day after the publication of ‘Paradise of the oligarch’ investigation about the villas from abroad of the Chairman of the Democratic Party of Moldova (PDM), Vlad Plahotniuc. After RISE Moldova published the article concerned, the Police informed that they initiated an investigation to verify this information.
RISE Moldova journalists were informed about the reporter being tracked by a person, who introduced himself as Veaceslav Galoi and claimed to have been involved in the trailing.

Previously, the press wrote that he had been involved in several provocations and situations that resulted in the detention of some public officials or business people.
During the discussions with RISE Moldova journalists, Veaceslav Galoi introduced himself as an undercover agent of the National Anticorruption Center (NAC), stating that he also works for other law enforcement bodies. He claims that Gheorghe Cavcaliuc, Deputy Director of the General Police Inspectorate, would have ordered to follow the journalists. He told the journalists he had other information, but he would provide it only if he signed a secret collaboration agreement with them.

RISE Moldova journalist Liuba Sevciuc thinks that there is someone else behind this person, someone who is disturbed by their articles. ‘After all, I did not understand the end goal, but for sure he came to send us a clear message. I suppose he wanted to intimidate us — not only me, but also the other colleagues of mine’, said Liuba Sevciuc during ‘Natalia Morari’s Politics’ talk show on TV8 of 31 October.
On Thursday, 1 November, the following day after the said talk show, journalist Natalia Morari also made alarming confessions on her Facebook page: ‘Yesterday Rise Moldova published the material about the trailing of their journalist, Liuba Sevciuc. Here is the continuation of this subject, but already in relation to me. I make public my discussion with Liuba Sevciuc because my colleagues from RISE Moldova have consented to it, provided that I quote them. Besides the situation with the apartment that I used to rent, located on Serghei Lazo Street (in the close proximity), where I was filmed with a hidden camera (and later blackmailing with that sex tape), I'm scared of something else. This man says they - the Special Operations Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs - were at my mother's house... AT THE HOUSE. OF MY MOM. A 69-year-old retiree. I do not know which law enforcement agencies to contact now, as they are the very ones that are following me. But for the first time I feel very uncertain about what can happen to me’, wrote Natalia Morari.
Note that after the RISE Moldova article was published, NAC representatives denied the presence of such an undercover agent in their structures, and the Press Service conveyed the rejection by Gheorghe Cavcaliuc, deputy director of the General Police Inspectorate, of the information that he had allegedly ordered the trailing of a journalist.

Previously, Veaceslav Galoi's name also featured in the scandal with the donations offered by Dufremol to the Party of Action and Solidarity. He has not yet provided any public explanations on the facts in which he allegedly was involved.