TIRASPOL. March 14 (Interfax) - Anatoly Guretsky, the chief prosecutor of Transdniestria, has claimed that an Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) delegation led by its chairperson-in-office was targeted for a terrorist attack while visiting Transdniestria on February 14.
"The fact of preparations for a terrorist attack on an OSCE delegation near the Bender Castle on February 14, when the delegation was supposed to return to Chisinau, has been established. The terrorist attacks were being prepared on orders from the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU)," Guretsky said at a press conference in Tiraspol on Tuesday.
The delegation visiting Bender to meet with Transdniestrian leader Vadim Krasnoselsky included about 20 people, among them OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and North Macedonian Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani, Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Thomas Mayr-Harting (Austria), Head of the OSCE Mission to Moldova Kelly Keiderling, and others, he said.
"It was planned to leave a car stuffed with explosives at a trolleybus stop on the OSCE delegation's way to Chisinau. And when the suspects failed to attack the OSCE members, they decided to target Vadim Krasnoselsky, head of the unrecognized Transdniestria," he said.
To prove his words, Guretsky presented a video showing a moving OSCE delegation motorcade, which, as he said, was seized during searches of the suspected conspirators.
Interfax reported earlier that the Transdniestrian State Security Ministry announced last Thursday that it had prevented a terrorist attack and detained several suspects. "The crime was being prepared against a number of Transdniestrian officials on orders from the Ukrainian Security Service," the ministry said.