The Democratic Party MP Andrian Candu claims that he and his party colleagues are always available for explanations to those who investigate the bank fraud. According to the MP, Alexandru Slusari, the chairman of the Commission of Inquiry for the investigation of the bank fraud, accused him of being involved in the bank fraud and of being one of the beneficiaries, referring to a 2011 transaction, which according to Candu, was actually a private one, reports IPN.
" Mr. Slusari claims to be a specialist in everything and in the financial field too, but actually he doesn't know what he is talking about. I would like to make the following specifications. First of all, the transaction to which he refers, took place in December 2011 and is a legal transaction made in the Netherlands, in front of a Dutch notary and registered by the authorities of the Netherlands. I signed the pre-sale-purchase contract, and the actual transaction was signed and made by competent people in the Netherlands,” said Andrian Candu at a press conference held on Thursday, September 26th.
According to him, this transaction is a private one and it concerned the sale of companies or shares in companies from the Republic of Moldova. It referred especially to over 20% of the shares in "Victorabank" and 80% of shares in "Victoria-Asigurări", as well as to a Ltd Company from Moldova.
The Democratic MP mentioned that "this private transaction was attacked by Viorel and Victor Țopa in the Dutch courts but they lost the lawsuits. "It seems that Mr. Slusari makes no distinction between private transactions and transactions that are linked to the Savings Bank, Social Bank, Unibank or those that could have had an impact on what we call the bank fraud. In this case, it seems that Mr. Slusari, in fact, pursues other interests in this parliamentary committee of investigation, namely, he defends the interests of the Topas (brothers Victor and Viorel Țopa, e.n.), by direct orders from and based on the information from his party leader, Mr. Năstase Andrei, who is also a relative of the Topas”, declared Andrian Candu.
In this context, Andrian Candu addressed to those who investigate the bank fraud, especially to the prosecutors, declaring that he is available to make statements, and give explanations as to what happened. The parliamentarian also says that since 2015, when the investigation of the banking system fraud began, he has never been summoned to give explanations on this subject, neither as minister of economy nor in other qualities.
