The court on May 22 will consider the Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime and Special Cases’ request to issue a warrant for the arrest of Vlad Plahotniuc.

Contacted by IPN, acting head of the Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime and Special Cases Ion Caracuian said the request was made on May 21, but the court will pronounce on May 22.

“On May 18, the indictment based on three counts, as the prosecutor general declared in the Monday briefing, was issued. Respectively, after the indictment ordinance was made, Mister Plahotniuc was issued with a summons at his domicile address. The summons wasn’t served. He is reportedly outside the country. That’s why we considered we should make approaches to have him remanded in custody,” stated Ion Caracuian.

The hearing was set to start at 10am.

Earlier this week, Prosecutor General Alexandr Stoianoglo said Vladimir Plahotniuc was one of the main beneficiaries of the bank theft. Plahotniuc was charged on three counts: founding of a criminal organization; swindle and money laundering, both in very large amounts. Immediately after the indictment is translated into English, it will be transmitted to the component authorities in the U.S. with the request to extradite him to Moldova so that he could be held accountable.