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A court in Chisinau on 19 October rejected an appeal from former Defense Minister Valeriu Pasat to change his current detention in custody to house arrest, Moldovan news agencies reported. The court heeded a prosecutor who had argued that Pasat, as an adviser to Russia’s Unified Energy Systems, could flee to Moscow. Pasat is now on trial for abuse of office in connection with the sale of 21 MiG-29 fighters to the United States in 1997, when he was Moldova’s defense minister. The prosecution maintains that Pasat inflicted a loss of more than $50 million on the state by that deal (see "RFE\/RL Belarus, Poland, and Moldova Report," 8 July 2005). Earlier this week, the prosecution brought a new charge against Pasat, accusing him of a similar offense by selling allegedly undervalued multiple-launch-rocket systems and missiles to a Slovak firm, ITAR-TASS reported. JM www.rferl.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading Time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>A court in Chisinau on 19 October rejected an appeal from former Defense Minister Valeriu Pasat to change his current detention in custody to house arrest, Moldovan news agencies reported. The court h<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society"],"content_social_share":"Reading Time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

A court in Chisinau on 19 October rejected an appeal from former Defense Minister Valeriu Pasat to change his current detention in custody to house arrest, Moldovan news agencies reported. The court heeded a prosecutor who had argued that Pasat, as an adviser to Russia’s Unified Energy Systems, could flee to Moscow. Pasat is now on trial for abuse of office in connection with the sale of 21 MiG-29 fighters to the United States in 1997, when he was Moldova’s defense minister. The prosecution maintains that Pasat inflicted a loss of more than $50 million on the state by that deal (see "RFE\/RL Belarus, Poland, and Moldova Report," 8 July 2005). Earlier this week, the prosecution brought a new charge against Pasat, accusing him of a similar offense by selling allegedly undervalued multiple-launch-rocket systems and missiles to a Slovak firm, ITAR-TASS reported. JM www.rferl.org<\/p>\n

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