Moldova Noastra Alliance: Memo on heat crisis in Chisinau hides huge corruption scheme

“The memoradum on overcoming the energy crisis in Chisinau” is a specially grave case and hides a huge corruption scheme. The statement was made Thursday by Moldova Noastra Alliance (AMN) MP Gheorghe Susarenco in the parliament, Info-Prim Neo reports. “It's obvious freezing the Chisinau residents was a blackmail action meant to justify a huge corruption scheme through which the Communist clientele should grasp all the city's lands. AMN considers the Voronin clan to be behind this scheme,” Susarenco said. The parliamentarian asked, in his faction's name, for the Local Administration Ministry to say its opinion about the document agreed by the secretary of the Social-Democratic Party (PSD) Eduard Musuc, in the name of the Chisinau Municipal Council, with SA Termocom and Moldova-Gaz. Susarenco has asked to order the invitation of Local Administration Minister Valentin Guznac to the Parliament's floor and explain whether a local public administration is entitled to pawn all its lands in an arrangement with companies. PSD leader Dumitru Braghis has backed AMN's idea to call the Minister. “It could be a way that the AMN colleagues realize Chisinau's mayor Dorin Chirtoaca has proven himself incapable and incompetent in a highly important problem, he did not prepare the city for the cold period and the CMC had to resort to emergency measures to get the situation out of the impasse.” The proposal to call in Valentin Guznac was rejected by the Communist majority. On Tuesday evening the local authorities, Termocom and Moldovagaz agreed on a Memo, later endorsed by the Municipal Council. The Memorandum provides for a heat tariff of 740 lei/Gcal. The residents will pay 540 lei, and the rest will be made up for from the municipal budget. The municipality shall pay off debts of 148 million lei and other 60 million to accrue till the year-end. 70 million are to be borrowed from the Government and must be returned till the year-end. The rest of the money, Council's chairman Eduard Musuc ensures, will be gathered from land sales.