Two foreigners, suspects of supporting fundamentalist, terrorist ideas, arrested in Moldova
CHISINAU. July 8 (Interfax) - Two foreigners have been arrested in Moldova on suspicion of involvement with terrorist organizations, one of them has been expelled, and another is also a subject to expulsion, the Information and Security Service told Interfax.
On July 7, the presumed islamists were arrested in an abandoned building on the outskirts of Ialoveni, a city 20km off Chisinau, the agency said.
The foreigners are being suspected of "support of fundamentalist opinions voiced by international terrorist organizations," the agency said.
The agency has not disclosed where exactly the arrested individuals arrived from, but noted that "these are the countries with increased terrorism risks."
"One of the foreigners is aged 30, the other is 40. The information collected has verified their connections with the terrorist groups of the Middle East. The photographic and video contents confirming their radical beliefs have been seized," the agency said.
The men who took residency in the abandoned building without permission were under surveillance of the counter-terrorist center of the Information and Security Service, and the special operations department of the National Investigative Inspectorate of the Moldovan Interior Ministry.
"Due to the foreigners posing a threat to the country's national security, they have been declared persona non grata for 15 years. One of the arrested individuals has already been expelled from Moldova, and the other has been placed in the Center for Temporary Accommodation of Foreigners at the Bureau of Migration and Asylum upon the court's order. He is also subject to expulsion from Moldova," the report said.
