The former head of the intelligence service of Moldova, sent to court by DIICOT for attempted treason. Alexandru Bălan is accused of spying for the Belarusian KGB

Alexandru Bălan, former deputy director of the Intelligence and Security Service of the Republic of Moldova, was sent to court on Wednesday, February 25, by DIICOT, according to a statement from the institution. Bălan is officially accused of “attempted treason by transmitting secret state information”, after he offered, starting in 2024, secret information of Romania to the KGB in Belarus.

The case was submitted for trial to the Bucharest Court of Appeal.

The case came to light on September 8, 2025, when DIICOT announced, without naming him, the detention of Alexandru Bălan for espionage in favor of the Belarusian KGB.

“Through the indictment dated February 25, 2026, the prosecutors of the Directorate for the Investigation of Organized Crime and Terrorism Crimes – Central Structure ordered the prosecution, in a state of preventive arrest, of a 47-year-old defendant, for committing the crimes of attempted treason by transmitting secret state information, in continuous form and divulging the secret that endangers national security”, announced Friday DIICOT.

The spying scheme described by prosecutors

According to the investigators, Bălan, during the period in which he held the position of head of the General Counterintelligence Directorate of the Intelligence and Security Service of the Republic of Moldova, and later as the director-deputy of the institution, came into possession of several classified information related to the space of the Russian Federation, and later, after leaving the institution, he unlawfully possessed documents and secret state information likely to affect the national security of Romania.

Also, starting in 2024, Bălan came into contact with intelligence officers from the State Security Committee – KGB of Belarus, with whom he met twice, in Budapest, “in a clandestine regime, with the adoption of multiple counter-informative protection measures, as well as by electronic mail, tracking, through the two methods of communication, the transmission of data/information of a state secret nature, as well as the transmission of informative reports that contained information of a secret nature by state, carrying out instructions and making payments in return for the services rendered”, say the prosecutors.

At the time of the home search made at his home, in September 2025, the investigators found “two documents containing secret state information, the transmission, disclosure or unauthorized possession of which endangers the national security of Romania”.