Moldovan Border Police comments on charges by Yulia Navalnaya on additional verifications at Chisinau Airport

Chisinau, 15 July /MOLDPRES/ - The Border Police today informed that all foreign citizens entering Moldova were subjected to a special control, in order to exclude eventual security risks. The specification was made following charges brought by Russian citizen Yulia Navalnaya on the additional verification at the Chisinau International Airport border checkpoint.    

According to the press service of the Border Police, the special verifications were established on 24 February 2022 with the declaring of the emergency state triggered by the war in Ukraine. ‘’These verifications were extended on the concerned person too. The special control procedure at crossing the state border is one for everybody, no exceptions can be allowed,’’ a press release of the institution reads.  

At the same time, the Intelligence and Security Service (SIS) informed that no special measures of investigation had been carried out on this citizen of Russia, including her visual supervision. Also, as a result of information unveiled, SIS, in cooperation with other law-enforcement institutions, started an inquiry, in order to elucidate all circumstances set for by Yulia Navalnaya.  

Yulia Navalnaya, the wife of the Russian opponent, Alexei Navalny, wrote on a social network that she would have been detained by the Border Police for more time at the Chisinau International Airport and afterwards would have been pursued while she was in Moldova.   

Moldova’s Presidency reacted to the charges brought by Yulia  Navalnaya and instructed the investigation and clearing up of the  situation by the competent institutions, both as regards the verifications   to which Navalnaya was subjected upon entering Moldova and  concerning the alleged pursuing.   

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