The decision to release Veaceslav Platon discredits the Prosecutor General’s Office, said the vice president of the Party “Dignity and Truth Platform”, MP Alexandru Slusari. According to him, the PGO is trying to turn the bank fraud case into a shop window and a screen for the non-investigation of the other resonant cases and for the protection of the other criminals who have robbed Moldova during the past ten years, IPN reports.

“When serving as the chairman of the parliamentary commission of inquiry, I indeed didn’t see his traces in the events related to the ‘billion theft’ at the three banks in 2013-2014, after he sold the shares in BEM either to Shor or to Plahotniuc. What about the raider attack of 2011-2012? The commission’s report clearly shows that namely then Plahotniuc and Platon launched the process of robbing the banking system,” Alexandru Slusari posted on Facebook.

He wondered what will be done in relation to the hidden transaction of December 2011, “when Platon paid US$ 80 million to Plahotniuc for the shares in BEM, Victoriabank and Asito, using the ‘carousel’ scheme, fictitious contracts, banks in Moldova (by violating all the prudence norms in lending) and the tax evasion mechanism. I see the PGO forgot about the Laundromat in general. But the architect of this scheme to launder tens of billions of dollars from Russian banks was namely Veaceslav Platon, who was allowed by Plahotniuc to use the judicial system of Moldova.”

The judges on June 15 ordered to immediately suspend the serving of the sentence passed by the Buiucani branch of the Chisinau City Court on April 20, 2017 against Veaceslav Platon, by which he was given 18 years in jail for swindle, money laundering and active corruption. The Prosecutor General’s Office informed about the suspension of the sentence, saying the Ciocana branch of the Chisinau City Court fully accepted the prospector general’s relevant request.