“No legal action will be taken over the alleged illegal financing of the Party of Socialists because the deed does not have constitutive elements of an offense,” the Prosecutor General’s Office said in a press release that is quoted by IPN.

At the start of June 2019, the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office launched a probe following the dissemination of videos of negotiations between Igor Dodon and Vladimir Plahotniuc at the Democratic Party’s head office, made with hidden cameras.

The press release says the refusal to take legal action was based on the results of the investigations conducted by the Service for the Prevention and Combating of Money Laundering, which didn’t identify suspected financial transactions of the PSRM and of private individuals and legal entities affiliated to this party. Also, there is the audit report on the financial management of the PSRM for 2016, 2017 and 2018, which shows that the revenues and costs are classified correctly and there are no irregularities. There are the annual reports taken from the Central Election Commission, etc.

Under the law, the decision not to take legal action can be challenged with the anticorruption prosecutor and later with the judge of inquiry.