3. DEPARTURE OF THE FOREIGNERS FROM THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA Foreigners may leave the territory of the Republic of Moldova on the basis of a valid travel document on the basis of which they entered the country, or a new valid travel document issued by the foreign diplomatic mission or consular post or other competent body, according to legislation in force. The Border Police can also allow the foreigner to leave the Republic of Moldova based on the document attesting another citizenship, in case of loss, theft or damage of the document with which they entered the Republic of Moldova. Stateless persons, refugees and beneficiaries of humanitarian protection have the right to leave the Republic of Moldova on the basis of a travel document, issued by the competent bodies. The foreigner is not allowed to leave the country due to the suspension of the right to free movement abroad for the following reasons:  the foreigner executes a custodial sentence based on a decision of the court of the Republic of Moldova; – in a process of criminal investigation or trial of the criminal case on the territory of the Republic of Moldova, the foreigner is notified in search by the competent body or one of the following preventive measures has been applied, according to the Code of Criminal Procedure: the obligation not to leave the city; the obligation not to leave the country; the transmission under supervision of the minor; house arrest; pre-trial detention; provisional release under judicial control or on bail, with the obligation not to leave the city;  medical coercive measures were applied to the foreigner, under the conditions of the criminal law;  the foreigner is prohibited from leaving the country on the basis of a court decision, according to the Enforcement Code. The measure of not leaving the country ceases de jure if it is proved that:  with regard to the foreigner, it was ordered not to start the criminal investigation, to remove him from the criminal investigation or to stop the criminal investigation, to pay or end the criminal trial or to revoke the preventive measure of the obligation not to leave the country;  the foreigner has executed the sentence, has been pardoned, benefits from an amnesty or has been sentenced, by a final court decision, with the conditional suspension of the execution of the sentence. The legislation in force does not provide for the possibility of prohibiting the departure from the territory of the Republic of Moldova of foreigners, who have unpaid administrative fines or arrears to the state budget or budgets of territorial administrative units. Thus, the foreigner cannot be detained when leaving the country on the grounds that he has not paid the fines or has debts to the public budget. 29

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