Denis Urechi, businessman who was sentenced in the “one billion theft” case, said he served time in jail unjustly and since 2012, when the criminal case was started, no real culprit was convicted. He noted he was accused of presenting false documents to the bank even if he couldn’t have done this physically as he wasn’t in the country at that moment and didn’t manage the company suspected of having raised a nonperforming loan.

In a news conference at IPN, Denis Urechi said that false data were annexed to the case. “Prospectors and judges who tried the case knew that false documents were used in this case. It is also known that the prosecutors obtained the conviction based on false documents,” stated the businessman.

Denis Urechi accuses judge Violeta Chisilița, who passed the sentence, of being blackmailable and says that her husband, who is a lawyer by profession, was caught with bribe intended for a judge. The prosecutors didn’t sent the case to court so as to be able to influence this judge to pass the judgement wanted by them.

Denis Urechi also said that after he was jailed to serve his time, he had a number of telephone discussions with anticorruption prospectors who insisted that he should change his testimonies. He was the target of a murder attempt in jail, but a criminal case over this hasn’t been started yet.

The businessman noted that after he was set free, he and his family were followed. The man addressed an open letter to the Government and Parliament, saying the Prosecutor General’s Office, in its current makeup, is not able to bring the bank fraud investigation to completion. “A significant part” of prosecutors, including Prosecutor General Eduard Harunjen himself, are involved in the infamous bank fraud.

Denis Urechi said that he continues to be tried on different pretexts and the examination of his appeals is delayed. He is hopeful that the new government is interested in discovering the truth about the bank fraud and is ready to present all the evidence he possesses.