According to the Prosecutor's Office, the competent British authorities on March 13 informed the Prosecutor General's Office of the Republic of Moldova that, based on the institution's request of September 25, 2024, fugitive Veaceslav Platon was arrested.
The Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Moldova informs that it keeps in touch with the British authorities to organize the procedures for bringing Platon to Moldova.
Veaceslav Platon was found guilty of creating and leading a criminal association, as well as withdrawing more than 126 billion rubles from Russia through the Moldovan bank Moldindconbank. He is also involved in a criminal case in the Russian Federation, being accused of illegally taking 48 billion rubles out of the country through the "Laundromat" scheme.
On April 20, 2017, Veaceslav Platon was sentenced to 18 years in prison in the bank fraud case. On June 15, 2020, he was released from detention, following a request by the then Prosecutor General Alexandr Stoianoglo. At the end of May 2021, the Prosecutor General's Office dropped the charges against Veaceslav Platon in the bank fraud case, and on June 14 he was acquitted in that case.
On July 18, 2021, Veaceslav Platon left the Republic of Moldova, and on August 12 he was put on the wanted list and an arrest warrant was issued for him for failure to appear at the court hearing in the case in which he is accused of fraud in particularly large proportions and corruption of two guards of the Special Purpose Detachment "Pantera".
