Ion Creangă (born 11 December 1962) is a

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n jurist and was the head of the Legal Department of the

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until his arrest in July 2024 for espionage.

Early life

Creangă was born in

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. He studied at the

Moldova State University Moldova State University (USM; Romanian language, Romanian: ''Universitatea de Stat din Moldova'') is a university located in Chișinău, Moldova. It was founded in 1946, and initially had five faculties, Physics and Mathematics, Geology and Ped ...

(1987–1992) and obtained his PhD in 2000.

Civil service career

Creangă was the head of the Legal Department of the Apparatus of the

. He was also the secretary of the

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. On 30 July 2024, Creangă was caught red-handed "providing information to a Russian agent" and relieved of his duties. The Parliament was raided in the process of the investigation. As a result the Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Moldova, , was summoned for an explanation to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Moldova on 1 August. It was reported that the assistant to the

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of the embassy had been caught with Creangă, and this person upon deportation was named as Dmitri Kelov, who had been on the

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, a trilateral structure responsible for overseeing the situation in the security zone between

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and territory under Moldovan control.

External links

Directia juridica

Constitutional Court OKs electoral law change

References

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