The Liberal Democratic Party of Moldova (PLDM) will be headed from now on by Valeriu Strelet. The announcement was made by Vlad Filat in Parliament before the issue of the annulment of his parliamentary immunity was to be put to the vote, IPN reports.

Vlad Filat said he is the victim of the system where the decisions are taken by the ‘puppeteer’ and today’s actions form part of a plan that was well thought out by this. Most probably, the leader of the Party of Communists Vladimir Voronin will be the next victim and this will be joined by other victims when Ilan Shor denounces them on the instructions of the ‘puppeteer’.

The politician harshly criticized his colleagues from other parliamentary groups, naming them deceitful and falsehearted because they take decisions and act from behind.

Prosecutor General Corneliu Gurin on October 15 asked Parliament to annul the parliamentary immunity of the Liberal-Democratic MP Vlad Filat so that this could be detained, arrested, investigated and brought to justice.

According to Gurin’s requisition, while holding the post of Prime Minister, Vlad Filat asked and received money from Ilan Shor for stopping the inspections at Dufremol, for naming him honorific consul in Russia and for allowing him to sell oil products. Also, Vlad Filat asked from Ilan Shor property and financial resources of over US$190 million for influencing public functionaries from the Government and other state institutions to take decisions and to adopt normative documents needed to ensure the issuing of additional shares at Banca de Economii, without the participation of the state. This led to the diminution of the state-owned holding in this bank to 33.3% plus 1 share and the taking over of Banca de Economii by Ilan Shor. These decisions also ensured the naming of Ilan Shor as head of the Administration Board of Banca de Economii and this thus obtained real possibilities of influencing the activity and decisions of the bank.