Activist Mihail Bagas, who is an aspirant for the post of mayor of Chisinau, was arrested. The information was confirmed for IPN by the press service of the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office (APO).

According to the APO, Mihail Bagas is suspected of preparation of and complicity in illegal financing of political parties, initiative groups and election contenders in large proportions and of complicity in and instigation of money laundering committed by an organized criminal group in very large proportions.

On September 19, Mihail Bagas filed the documents for being registered as a runner in the local mayoral elections in Chisinau on behalf of the Party “League of Cities and Communes”.