MOLDOVA'S EX-PRESIDENT: MIG-29 SALE CASE LOOKS POLITICAL
RIA Novosti
CHISINAU, March 18 (RIA Novosti's Vladimir Novosadyuk) - Moldova's ex-President Petru Lucinski claims that the case of MiG-29 sale to the United States in 1997 is a purely political one and therefore should be closed. The sale decision was the only correct one at that time, he added.
"If Moldovia is a country with fair justice and independent investigators, the case should be cancelled within a short while," thinks Lucinski.
The ex-president says he does not look at the recent Chisinau arrest of Valery Pasat, an adviser to the head of Russia's Unified Energy Systems, as an attempt to defame him (Lucinski) because he has got no intention to return to politics.
Pasat was detained at Chisinau airport last Friday on the grounds of his involvement in the Mig-29 sale case. The Chisinau court passed a ruling last Monday that Pasat stay in custody for another ten days. On that very day Pasat, referring to his arrest as a political order, declared a hunger strike.
Pasat's defense had voiced its intention to call Moldova's ex-President Petru Lucinski as a main witness because the MiG-29 deal in 1997 could have not been made without the knowledge of the country's top leaders.
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