A group of persons who owned roughly 70 percent of stocks in Gemenii SA, which operates a shopping center in the heart of Chisinau, are accusing ex-president Vladimir Voronin of direct involvement in depriving them of their possessions in the company, Info-Prim Neo reports. The former stockholders told a press conference today that the court decisions to dispossess them of their interest were taken “on the direct order of ex-president Voronin”, after the company was put on the Voronin family's want list. Dr. Ilie Rotaru, the ex-director of the company, a lawyer and also a former major stockholder, says the court order that sacked him and deprived him of property was executed, by the Anticorruption squad, the same day it was pronounced, on 11 January 2007, suggesting that the swiftness with which the authorities acted was indicative of political involvement. He also alleged that the perpetrators of this “economic crime” falsified recordings in the State Register to legalize the dispossession. After doctoring the Register, the majority stake in the company went to a company named Geomold, whose founders are two offshore firms, Rotaru added. “The dispossession of the legitimate shareholders of property and income in extremely large amounts (...) can be easily demonstrated”, says Rotaru, adding that the former shareholders kept the old register as evidence to prove that. Ilie Rotaru, together with other former shareholders, Viorica Gutu, Maria Mamaliga and Irina Glitman, wrote a letter to Prime Minister Vlad Filat, asking for the rehabilitation of their privileges and rights.