The former prime minister Iurie Leancă is fighting back against Veaceslav Platon’s incriminating revelations. “I will demonstrate that these statements and media campaigns have no factual basis. And I will demand in court that, for all the past four years during which they manipulated, they spend the next four years presenting retractions and public apologies and paying libel damages that I will give to the needy,” said Leancă in a press release.

“Mr. Platon, who is considered the greatest raider in the post-Soviet space, has the nerve to affirm that it was wrong for the Government to intervene in the autumn of 2014 when the bank guarantees were issued. Perhaps for him it would have been better if half a million citizens lost their deposits and the banking system collapsed, enabling him to buy the banks for peanuts and paralyze the entire economy of Moldova, triggering unprecedented protests that would have brought pro-Russian revenge-seeking parties to power in the November 2014 elections,” counter-strikes Iurie Leancă.

According to him, “this was the true goal of Platon and of those who gave him orders.” “I also remember in this context reports from the summer of 2014 about Platon’s efforts to buy several MPs’ votes and sabotage the ratification of the Association Agreement with the EU,” said the former prime minister.

Veaceslav Platon, a former banker and MP for a brief period, is now serving a 30 years’ sentence for fraud. In an interview with TV8 host Natalia Morari, Platon accused Iurie Leancă of being “totally implicated in the one-billion-dollar heist.” At the same time, Platon considers that Leancă “did not understand what he was doing.”