The Internal Affairs Unit of the Moldovan Ministry of Interior has initiated an investigation based on an article posted on anticoruptie.md.

The investigation was initiated at the request of minister of Interior Alexandru Jizdan.

According to the article, a police detective would have interrogated a team of journalists and would have confiscated all their materials related to a the privatization of a pond.

The authorities will investigate and establish all the details regarding this incident, as well as the legality of th epolice officers’ actions.

Media protection NGOs have condemned and qualified as inadmissible the authoritarian intimidation on behalf of the police.