Șor Party is suspected of consciously accepting money from a criminal grouping. The money was used to satisfy party needs, to pay artists for concerts and to organize protests. The criminal group’s money got to the Republic of Moldova in the form of transfers, including as crytocurrency, and different financing channels were used to hide the origin of the money through Dubai, Vienna, Monaco, IPN reports, with reference to the National Anticorruption Center (NAC).

According to the Center, the party in the first half of this year made payments to the value of €600,000 at a time when the reported costs were of slightly over 228,000 lei. The same sources were used to pay monthly salaries to the value of €100,000, while over 3.5 million lei went to transport participants in protests mounted in the central square of Chisinau. In the first six months of this year, the party reported that it received financing of 1.7 million lei.

Anticorruption prosecutors and officers of the NAC carried out searches at a number of activists of Şor Party in a criminal case started over the illegal financing of the political party.