Moldova broadens probe into pro-Russian group after detention of ethnic minority leader

FILE PHOTO: Leader of Moldova's Gagauzia region Yevgenia Gutsul (Eugenia Gutul) speaks during a press conference in Moscow, Russia, April 22, 2024. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina/File Photo

CHISINAU (Reuters) -Moldova broadened an investigation into the financing of a banned pro-Russian political grouping in the country, two days after the detention of the leader of a pro-Moscow ethnic minority.

The detention at Chisinau airport of Eugenia Gutul, the leader of the autonomous region of Gagauzia, has further strained the former Soviet republic's difficult relations with Moscow.