Oleg Voronin explains failure to appear before anticorruption investigators

Businessman Oleg Voronin, the son of ex-president Vladimir Voronin, has notified the Center for Combating of Economic Crimes and Corruption (CCCEC) of his impossibility to comply with the summons requesting his presence before investigators today, because he is out of the country, but has promised to comply as soon as he is back, Info-Prim Neo learned from a CCCEC statement. Oleg Voronin was summoned for Wednesday, 11:00AM. He notified the investigator conducting his case by telephone, two ours earlier. Oleg Voronin is to appear before the CCCEC for explanations in connection with the transactions “in particularly large amounts” performed in the last two years through his personal account. “The Center is investigating the period 2008-2009 when citizen Oleg Voronin paid with his personal card, in lei or other currencies, the equivalent to 67 million lei ($5.3m) for various goods and services while being outside of the Republic of Moldova. “This is a standard procedure, during which investigations are carried out to establish the origin of this money and the nature of the given incomes, including to determine whether or not those incomes originated from criminal activity. “In this context, citizen Oleg Voronin shall produce evidence accounting for the origin of the spent money, considering that his income returns filed with the Main Tax Inspectorate show visible discrepancies between the stated incomes (including from companies in which he own interests) and his spending”, the Center's statement said, quoted by Info-Prim Neo.