Activist Pavel Grigorchuk says that Renato Usatyi, a former mayor of Balti and a candidate running in the October 20 presidential elections, is a criminal who should be sentenced to life imprisonment for organizing an attack on a businessman and at least two murders.
In a news conference hosted by IPN, Pavel Grigorchuk said that he talks about the attack on German Gorbuntsov, organized in London in 2012. He studied the materials of the case and saw that Usatyi’s guilt is proven. However, instead of being tried, Usatyi was released from criminal liability.
According to Pavel Grigorchuk, the witnesses in the case, who also passed the polygraph test, described in detail how the weapon from which German Gorbuntsov was shot was transmitted. Even if one of them later retracted the made statements, these remained documented.
“Usatyi used Gennady Vekiu, also known as “Clifford”, and Oleg Tymoshenko, the leader of the “Timoha” gang, as intermediaries for the organization of this crime, whom he later killed,” said Pavel Grigorchuk. According to the activist, the killer sent to murder businessman German Gorbuntsov is in a prison in Romania, where he is serving his sentence for another attack.
Pavel Grigorchuk also said that, despite the existing testimonies, on August 30, 2022, prosecutor Igor Demchuchin released Usatyi from criminal responsibility. “Only three months later, Demchuchin was promoted as first deputy prosecutor general of Moldova. An ordinary prosecutor, three months after the charges of attempted assassination of Gorbuntsov against Usatyi were dropped, becomes the second most important person in the Prosecutor’s Office controlled by Maia Sandu,” said Pavel Grigorchuk.
By the time the news article was broadcast, neither Renato Usatyi nor his electoral staff commented on the accusations made by Pavel Grigorchuk.
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