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Yesaulenko Alexander
Yesaulenko Alexander

Biography

From 1999 to 2017, he advanced from the post of investigator to deputy head of the Main Counterintelligence Directorate of Moldova.

In 2017-2018, he was seconded to the position of Advisor to the Rector of the International Independent University of Moldova on international cooperation and scientific research.

Since 2018 - Head of the Main Directorate of Military Counterintelligence.

Yesaulenko specialized in Transnistria and Ukraine. He is also characterized as a technical person trying to move away from a political position.

On June 25, 2019, Alexander Esaulenko, Colonel of the SIB, was appointed head. Information and Security Services Moldova In fact, the role of the curator of the special services is played by Artur Gumenyuk, who previously worked as an adviser to the president Moldova Igor Dodon.

The investigation, launched by the SIB in 2021 under Yesaulenko, revealed the scale of financial and political ties between the entourage of Moldovan President Igor Dodon and Russian agents of influence, such as political advisers sent from Moscow to support Dodon's Moldavian Socialist Party. The former president was placed under house arrest in May 2022, and Esaulenko resigned a few days later.