More than 40 persons from Ialoveni district called on the authorities to help them get back the money they saved with a loan association. They accuse of swindle the former mayor of Danceni village of Ialoveni district, who headed the given association. In a news conference at IPN, they said that the authorities’ support is their last hope as the law enforcement bodies do not hurry to help them.
The people related that after they saved money with the association, they were unable to recover it. The ex-president of the association released loans and, when they were repaid, he appropriated the money. The accountant was his accomplice. The people said the mayor was able to transfer the property to his relatives and thus they now cannot get their money back. They also sought help from the People’s Movement “Antimafie”.
“Antimafie” deputy head Daniela Bodrug said the person who appropriated the money is a member of the Liberal Democratic Party of Moldova. In advertising videos on TV, this party’s leader Vlad Filat is shown hugging elderly people and children. He should better go to Danceni to see what his councilor does. According to Daniela Bodrug, there are more such associations in the country’s settlements and they enjoy political support.
Mayor of Danceni Andrei Varlan said that the people come daily to him and complain, but the local administration is unable to help them. He called on the head of state and the Premier to become involved.
Eudochia Sheveliov, a pensioner from Danceni, said that she deposited over 150,000 lei that she earned her whole life together with her husband in that association. “My husband died. I didn’t have money for his funeral. I begged the accountant to give my money back,” she stated.
The persons filed a complained to the National Financial Market Commission in 2011 and the loan association was deprived of license. The same year, the then General Police Inspectorate of Chisinau started a criminal case over embezzlement. The case was transmitted to the Ialoveni Inspectorate. The losses amount to about 2.7 million lei. The Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office also started a criminal case.
