Communicated on 17 June 2019

SECOND SECTION

Application no. 46577/14 Anatoli JURAVLIOV and Iurie PANICIUC against the Republic of Moldova lodged on 3 June 2014

SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE

The application concerns entrapment to commit a crime. The alleged agent provocateur , while being under house arrest for fabricating counterfeit money, was allegedly able to obtain equipment and materials necessary for fabricating counterfeit money and deliver all of this to one of the 17 co-accused in order to fabricate counterfeit money (US Dollars and Russian Roubles). He and other infiltrated persons subsequently bought counterfeit money produced by the co-accused, including the applicants, under police supervision. The money was of a very poor quality, bearing the text: “This tissue is super tender for all dogs, public and private”. It appears that, aside from infiltrated persons, nobody else bought any of it.

The first-instance court excluded from evidence several instances where it found that infiltrated agents had given counterfeit money to some co-accused in order for them to further it to other persons, who themselves turned out to be infiltrated agents. However, the court did not reach the same conclusion in respect of the applicants.

The application raises an issue under Article 6 § 1 of the Convention.

QUESTION tO THE PARTIES

Has there been a breach of 6 § 1 of the Convention in the present case? In particular, were the applicants victims of entrapment and did the domestic courts properly examine their arguments in this respect (see, for instance, Ramanauskas v. Lithuania [GC], no. 74420/01, §§ 49-74 , ECHR 2008 )?

No.

Firstname LASTNAME

Birth year

Nationality

Place of residence

Representative

1Anatoli JURAVLIOV

1949Moldovan

Cricova

S. Macrinici

2Iurie PANICIUC

1941Moldovan

Chisinau

S. Macrinici