Moldavian the police announced that they searched about 50 buildings in several locations in that country and found evidence of an organized group, which previously trained in a camp in Serbia, planned to cause riots in Moldova, reports Radio Free Europe (RSE).
"The organized group allegedly acted with the direct intention of carrying out large-scale illegal activities and in exchange for financial benefits," the Moldovan police said in a statement.
The police of Moldova added that during the search, among other things, they confiscated bank cards, some of which were issued by financial institutions of the Russian Federation, then more than 20 biometric passports with stamps for crossing the border with Serbia, as well as radio stations, binoculars, bullets of various calibers for lethal and non-lethal weapons.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Serbia did not immediately respond to RFE's request for more information on this case.
The Moldovan police state that the group was previously trained in a camp in Banja Kovigliacha, with the aim of "creating social tension, which would be followed by the initiation of violent protests with the intention of affecting public order and the security of the citizens of Moldova."
Arrests in Serbia
On September 26, the police in Serbia arrested two people who are accused of organizing combat-tactical training of citizens of Moldova and Romania, which were aimed at causing disorder in Moldova. The authorities in Chisinau have previously publicly warned of the existence of combat camps in Serbia, stating that they were organized by the Russian secret service in order to destabilize Moldova during the recent elections in that country. Moscow has rejected those accusations, it reports Insider.
The police in Serbia announced that the training was conducted from July 16 to September 12 in a restaurant near Loznica and that between 150 and 170 Moldovan and Romanian citizens went through it.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić said in October that he could not claim that the Russian service was behind the camp, but that the police detained persons of Serbian nationality "who were available".
Source: Insider/RFE