Prime Minister Maia Sandu requested on Thursday the Interior Minister and the Justice Ministers to issue a draft law on ensuring the security of state institutions exclusively by the subdivisions of the Interior Ministry. "It is inadmissible for the state institutions to be “defended” by the military or paramilitary structures subordinated to Plahotniuc", said Maia Sandu in the Government meeting.

The decision of the PM comes after a recent investigation carried out by the Center for Investigative Journalism in Moldova revealed that private companies with a criminal history and close to the leader of the  Democratic Party Vlad Plahotniuc ensure the protection of state institutions, among which the courts. The investigation of the Center for investigative Journalism revealed that two security companies that concluded several advantageous contracts with the state,   Bercut SRL and Argus-S were targeted in criminal cases, one of them having connections with people from the underworld.

By 2016, private security companies were not entitled to provide services for state institutions. After the fall of the communist government, the former Minister of Economy, Valeriu Lazar, promoted the idea that the private enterprises should be granted the right to guard the state institutions, but it was not backed by the former PM Vlad Filat and the former Interior Minister Dorin Recean.

After the arrest of Vlad Filat in the autumn of 2015, the then Chairman of the National Security, Defense and Public Order Committee Veaceslav Untila, proposed to debate in the Parliament the amendments to the legislation regarding the activity of private detective and security companies. On December 10, 2015, the Parliament amended the law so that private companies obtained the right to guard any state objective, except the National Bank of Moldova, as well as the deposits of weapons and ammunition or radioactive, toxic and dangerous substances. On June 17, 2016, the Government headed by Pavel Filip repealed the list of objectives whose security cannot be performed by private security organizations.