MPs Iurie Reniţă, Octavian Țîcu and Lilian Carp request Prosecutor General Alexandr Stoianoglo to come to Parliament and demand to lift the immunity of three Socialist MPs - Corneliu Furculiţă, Vasile Bolea and Vladimir Odnostalco. These are accused of intentional non-presentation of data in the declaration of income.
Iurie Reniţă told a news conference held before the March 17 meeting of Parliament that Socialist MP Corneliu Furculiţă, who owns Exclusiv Media SRL, signed three lending agreement to the value of €1.499 million with the own company. The money was to be used to finance the campaign prior to the presidential elections of 2016. Reniţă noted that he provides information from a 2016 National Anticorruption Center report on money laundering in that campaign. The money is not indicated in the declaration of income submitted by Corneliu Furculiţă.
The MP said he obtained evidence showing that a part of the Socialist MPs benefitted from funds within the famous case Bahamas. The prosecutor general dropped the case started based on videos showing President Igor Dodon “speaking about illegal financing and attempts to hush up the Bahamas case”. “It is our duty before the people to inform them correctly and truthfully about what happened and what can happen as we are again close to presidential elections,” stated Iurie Reniţă.
Octavian Ţîcu told the same news conference that Igor Dodon won the elections of 2016 with the assistance of fraudulent schemes that involved Corneliu Furculiţă Vasile Bolea and Vladimir Odnostalco, who all form part of the circle close to President Dodon.
Lilian Carp said they made these statements in a news conference in order to warn the law enforcement agencies not to drop the case concerning supposed acts of money laundering featuring persons affiliated to the Party of Socialists.
Contacted by IPN, press officer of the Party of Socialists Irina Astahova said that she has nothing to comment on these statements and suggested asking directly the mentioned MPs.
The Prosecutor General’s Office said on the issue that the criminal investigation measures in the case started over alleged money laundering go on. “This case was started by the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office in 2016 and was then left to gather dust for over three years. The investigation now goes on and the institution will periodically inform about the solutions adopted in this case,” spokeswoman for the PGO Maria Vieru stated for IPN.
