If the authorities stop placing obstacles to the appearance of the third mobile phone carrier on the Moldovan market, new workplaces will be created in Moldova, the volume of work, the investments and the amounts collected as taxes will increase, while the people will have access to cheater communications services, jurist of the Creditors Board of Eventis Mobile Serghey Gotonoga said in a roundtable meeting staged by the Chisinau newspaper “Panorama”, IPN reports.
According to Serghey Gotonoga, the general assembly of the company’s creditors on October 29 and December 13, 2010, which involved 120 persons, decided to sell the company by negotiations in the form of a common patrimonial complex. The lowest price of the company’s assets was set at 40 million lei. Consequently, on May 14, 2013, there was signed an agreement to sell Eventis Mobile for 49 million lei to Iulerom S.R.L.
“The Licensing Chamber said the agreement of May 14 wasn’t legalized by a notary. But the court approved the given agreement and on July 4 it was legalized by a notary. However, the ICT regulator (ANRCETI) told us that a special procedure needs to be performed in order to initiate the license transferring procedure. We did everything, but received no answer,” stated Serghei Gotonoga.
The jurist added that the ANRCETI and the Licensing Chamber were obliged to register the agreement and issue a license immediately after the approval of the business by the court. The term expired on July 5. Thus, the Creditors Board of Eventis Mobile intends to look for justice at the ECHR and to seek damages of at least 41 million lei.
“The sum can be yet much larger as not only the real material damage will be taken into account, but also the missed profit,” said lawyer Maxim Belinski, vice president of the international organizations “Human Rights Embassy”.
The jurists said that when the operator starts work, all the former employees of Eventis Mobile S.R.L. will be paid salary arrears of 16 million lei, while the new owner intends to invest 200 million lei in equipment and to propose communications services by 30% cheaper.
Representatives of the ICT Ministry were invited to the meeting, but they didn’t take part in the public debate.
