The president of honor of the Party of Socialists Igor Dodon was summoned to go to the Prosecutor General’s Office on December 27. The information was confirmed for IPN by PGO’s press officer Mariana Cherpec. Igor Dodon is to be questioned in the criminal case featuring SA “Energocom” about the purchase of electrical energy in 2008-2009.
In a reaction, Igor Dodon said the subject concerning “Energocom” has been discussed for about 13 years. It was analyzed from all the angles and nothing dubious was detected there. “They tried while the state was captured by Plahotniuc, as during AEI1 and AEI2, to extract something from this case. This is a sterile subject, as is the accusation that I illegally held the post of presider of the Chess Federation simultaneously with that of Head of State. Everything was according to law,” the politician posted on Facebook. According to him, the summons is a smokescreen launched in the media as the government does not know what else to invent to divert citizens’ attention from tariffs, failures, higher prices, antidemocratic elections in Bălți and the declining popular approval ratings of PAS. He said he didn’t receive the summons, but will go to the PGO if he gets it.
Igor Dodon held the post of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Trade in the Tarlev II and Grechanyi Governments.
In September 2021, the Prosecutor General’s Office announced that it took legal action over appropriation of the financial resources of the state through the agency of schemes in the process of importing electrical energy into the Republic of Moldova, with considerable damage being caused to the state as a result. It was determined that at the start of 2008, decision makers of SA “Energocom”, which ensured the provision of the Republic of Moldova with electricity, implemented an illegal scheme through which they embezzled public funds totaling US$ 11 927 173, which is equal to 123 957 916 lei. The scheme was put into practice by prior agreement and by common accord with officials of the Ministry of Economy and Infrastructure, the National Agency for Energy Regulation and other persons, including from outside the country.
