The Prosecutor General’s Office, in its current makeup, is not able to bring the bank fraud investigation to completion, says Denis Urechi, a businessman released from prison after spending three and a half years behind bars in the “one billion theft” case.  

Reading out a letter addressed to the Government and Parliament at a press conference, Urechi stated that “a significant part” of prosecutors, including Prosecutor General Eduard Harunjen himself, are involved in the infamous bank fraud.

Denis Urechi also claimed that pressure is being put on him and his family and that he is being threatened with reopening of criminal proceedings and false charges from judge Veniamin Chihai. “He extracted documents from my file to falsify a judicial decision in order to pressure me into withdrawing my complaints against the criminal group that perpetrated the fraud,” said Denis Urechi.

The businessman says that he repeatedly tried to reach out to the former Speaker Andrian Candu and the former SIS director Vasile Botnari, but all his petitions remained unanswered.

“I believe that the new government is interested in finding the truth about the bank fraud, and I’m ready to present all the evidence. I am ready to contribute with everything I can to elucidate the case,” said Urechi.

Denis Urechi was sentenced in 2012 to four years’ imprisonment for presenting false documents to Banca de Economii.