The president of honor of the Party of Socialists Igor Dodon, who was summoned to go to the Prosecutor General’s Office (PGO) on December 27, didn’t present himself at the institution. The politician was to be questioned in the criminal case featuring SA “Energocom” about the purchase of electrical energy in 2008-2009

Contacted by IPN for details, the PGO’s press officer Mariana Cherpec said the investigation activities planned for today that were to involve Igor Dodon were put off at the request of his lawyer, who argued that his client is abroad and this trip was planned beforehand.

Igor Dodon was invited again to the PGO for December 29, 11am.

Last week, after he was issued with a summons, Igor Dodon said the summons was a smokescreen launched in the media as the government does not know what else to invent to divert citizens’ attention from tariffs, failures, higher prices, antidemocratic elections in Bălți and the declining popular approval ratings of PAS. He said he didn’t receive the summons, but will go to the PGO if he gets it.

In September 2021, the Prosecutor General’s Office announced that it took legal action over appropriation of the financial resources of the state through the agency of schemes in the process of importing electrical energy into the Republic of Moldova, with considerable damage being caused to the state as a result. It was determined that at the start of 2008, decision makers of SA “Energocom”, which ensured the provision of the Republic of Moldova with electricity, implemented an illegal scheme through which they embezzled public funds totaling US$ 11 927 173, which is equal to 123 957 916 lei. The scheme was put into practice by prior agreement and by common accord with officials of the Ministry of Economy and Infrastructure, the National Agency for Energy Regulation and other persons, including from outside the country.