All newspapers on Wednesday read about the espionage scandal in Moscow, involving a Romanian diplomat: one newspaper reads that the Russian secret services leaked the tape portraying the arrest of the diplomat. Another topic that made the first page of most dailies today is the tragedy at the Giulesti Maternity in Bucharest: one newspaper reads that prosecutors started to question the medical personnel. Another newspaper quotes a doctor qualifying the tragedy as the most severe cases on the planet. The international press comments the tragedy as well.
The Russian secret services leaked in the Russian press the tape portraying the arrest of the Romanian diplomat Gabriel Grecu, accused of espionage in Moscow, Evenimentul Zilei reads. The newspaper quotes a Russian publication, Komsomolskaia Pravda who declared that the Russian secret services were well aware of the interest of the Romanian undercover spies in Moldovan and Russian citizens.
The interest in a certain Russian citizen who had access to secret data was known even before Grecu came to Moscow, undercover, sources declared for the publication.
Former first secretary of the Romanian Embassy to Moscow, Dinu Pistol, Grecu's predecessor, already tried to contact and convince a Russian citizen, who had access to the information Romania needed regarding the situation in Moldova and Transniester.
The source reads that the connection was made through e-mail, using different key words and the information was sent through packages left in supermarket boxes. All data sent by the Russian citizen were paid in foreign currency but the information was not secret at all, the newspaper reads.
When Grecu arrived, replacing Pistol, he asked the Russian citizen secret information, including military data. The Russian got scared and announced the Russian secr
