Ion Butmalai

Ion Butmalai (9 October 1964 – 9 December 2014)[1] was a Moldovan politician and a deputy in the Parliament of Moldova from 2009 to 2014, member of the Liberal Democratic Party of Moldova.

Ion Butmalai was born on 9 October 1964, in Tigheci village, Leova district, Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union.

Between 1985 and 1987 he studied at the Special Middle School of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR in Oryol, Russian SFSR, USSR, at the specialty – JURIST, the specialization – Administrative practice of the State Auto Police.

From 1991 to 1996 he studied at the Ştefan cel Mare Police Academy as a jurist specialization – Practice and Administration in the OAI, Master – Criminal Law.

[2] On 9 December 2014, around 12:00, Ion Butmalai was found dead by his wife, shot in his chest, from his own legally-owned gun, in the garage of his home in Cahul.