“Moldovagaz” will have to review the tariffs for end-users if the courts find it guilty of illegally supplying gas to some firms and of including the incurred costs in the tariffs paid by domestic consumers. The issue was discussed in the talk show “Fabrika” on Publika TV channel, IPN reports.
Sergiu Ostaf, executive director of the Resource Center for Human Rights (CReDO), said the supplier must find a method of restoring the money stolen from the domestic consumers. “I saw the sum of 50 million lei only in one episode. The sums included unjustifiably in the tariffs paid by end-users are enormous. The gas supplier must find a method of paying this money back to the people,” he stated.
Political analyst Victor Gurau considers the costs that were unreasonably included in the tariffs paid by domestic consumers affected also the tariffs of other energy resources. “The heat tariffs and the electric power tariffs, to a certain extent, depend on the natural gas tariffs. I think these tariffs should also be taken into account and the people should get their money back,” he stated.
Roman Chirca, director of the Market Economy Institute, said the gas supplier should be obliged to restore the stolen money to the domestic consumers of natural gas. “Moldovagaz financed political parties. It employed different corruption and appropriation schemes and the people suffered the consequences,” he stated.
The prosecutors on November 26 searched the head offices of “Moldovagaz” and “Chisinau-gaz” and the domiciles of their directories. These are suspected of implementing a fraudulent scheme by which millions of lei was laundered, while the costs were included in the tariffs paid by end-users.
