The president of the Party “Action and Solidarity” Maia Sandu by an application addressed to the Prosecutor General’s Office demanded to hold the leader of the Democratic Party Vlad Plahotniuc criminally accountable for false income statements and money laundering. The politician made reference to a journalistic investigation saying the former Democratic MP didn’t declare at least four luxury villas he owns in Europe through agents, IPN reports.
In her application, Maia Sandu says that given the findings of the investigation, there are reasonable suspicions that Vlad Plahotniuc presented false income statements and this is an offense covered by the Penal Code. Even if these villas were acquired in 2008-2012, none of them was indicated in the income and property statements submitted by the leader of the PDM in 2008-2014.
“The same investigation revealed that the villa in Geneva, to the value of 31.5 Swiss francs, was bought shortly after OTIV Prime Holding, a Dutch company connected to Plahotniuc, sold a part of its business owned in Moldova to Yuri Kontievski, the trustworthy person of the convicted Veaceslav Platon. The money used to buy OTIV Prime Holding came from the accounts of Westburn Enterprises, which was involved in the laundering of US$ 22 billion from Russian funds. The legitimate question is if this operation is actually money laundering,” said the PAS leader.
