AMN claims Moldtelecom is compelled to buy failing company, UPDATE

{UPDATE, par. 6 replaced} The leader of Our Moldova Alliance (AMN) say acting president Vladimir Voronin compels the state-owned company “Moldtelecom” SA to buy, “at a fabulous and dubious price”, the mobile telephony operator “Eventis”, on the brink of bankruptcy. “It is a doubtful affair, which, if done, may affect including those over 7,000 employees of Moldtelecom. In addition, Moldtelecom has its own mobile telephony operator, which is hardly surviving in the conditions of the world crisis,” Serafim Urecheanu told a news conference on July 13, Info-Prim Neo reports. According to the AMN leader, Voronin compels the national fixed telephony operator to give $100 million on “Eventis”, although this company costs 3-4 times less, in the conditions of the ongoing economic crisis. “The Eventis employees have not lifted salaries for 6 months,” Urecheanu stated, adding that he has got this information from Moldtelecom employees from several districts. Moreover, the AMN leader says Moldtelecom's former manager Gheorghe Ursachi was recently sacked for “being a patriot and did not allow this corruption.” He was replaced by Vitalie Iurcu, the former manager of the Energy Regulating Agency (ANRE), who is already enforcing the request of the head of the state, the AMN president says. According to Urecheanu, the deal would have been impelled on Voronin by certain groups of interests from Russia, not necessarily by Muscovite officials. On the other hand, Urecheanu does not rule out that the deal would be a condition for Russia to disburse the promised half-billion-dollar loan to Moldova. Moldtelecom's general manager Vitalie Iurcu shows himself puzzled by Serafim Urecheanu's statements and says those are inventions having nothing in common with the truth. In statement sent to the agency he says “the statements are political and pursue a single goal: to misinform the public.”