The operating and management systems and processes of SA “Moldovagaz”, including the decision-making ones, didn’t ensure transparent, compliant and profitable economic-financial management. The use of circulating funds for making investments and covering costs that were nontransparent, non-productive, unjustified and unreasonable from economic viewpoint hampered the achievement of statutory goals that would have generated tangible effects to diminish the debts owed to the Russian company Gazprom, says an audit report by the Court of Auditors that was presented in Parliament, IPN reports.

Court member Sergiu Știrbu said that even if the costs and investments made by SA Moldovagaz have been optimized the last three years, these cannot eliminate the effects of noncompliant and inefficient management of the company’s assets in 199-2018.

In 2014-2021, the losses in the network came to 2 billion lei and 900 million lei of these was accepted by the regulator. The 900 million lei was included in the gas rate paid by the citizen, while the rest of 1.1 billion wasn’t recovered by the company.

Also, Moldovagaz spent about 500 million lei on building the head office situated at 64 Pushkin St, but initially the costs were estimated at 230 million lei. Most of the documents referring to the construction disappeared or were destroyed.

SA Moldovagaz CEO Vadim Ceban stated in Parliament that all the documents possessed by the company were provided to the audit team of the Court of Auditors. He recently learned that “Chișinău-Gaz” has a document storage room that was sealed.

As to the erecting of the building on Pushkin St, he said that the law enforcement agencies were notified in September 2019 so that they elucidated the circumstances, but there is no information about the developments in this case.

Court of Auditors president Marian Lupu said the documents referring to the building works could not be found and the law enforcement agencies noted that they also could not detect them while examining this case. In over two months, owing to the insistence of the Court’s auditors, that locked room at “Chișinău-Gaz” was found. Empty sacks were discovered there and it was clear that documents were kept there, but someone took them.

The audit report was submitted to the Parliament, the President, the Government and the ministries in charges, the National Agency for Energy Regulation, the Public Property Agency and the Prosecutor General’s Office.