Businessman Vadim Chernea accuses Moldovan prosecutors, judges and politicians of complicity in dubious business practices. In a news conference on Friday, he provided evidence about illegal decisions that favored money laundering, Info-Prim Neo reports. According to Chernea, in December 2009 the Supreme Court of Justice allowed the offshore company Remington Worldwide Limited to levy debts from a number of Ukrainian and Russian companies. Chernea considers that the court thus authorized a fraudulent scheme to launder money, illegally involving important Russian and Ukrainian banks and energy and metallurgical companies by counterfeit contracts and other documents. Chernea said the decision was made after new politicians interested in these transactions entered the Parliament. They influenced the reanimation of court decisions under which the mentioned Russian and Ukrainian companies owe about US$23 million to Remington Worldwide Limited. Such a decision was passed by the Chisinau Court of Appeals in 2004, but was later quashed as none of the involved Russian and Ukrainian companies worked on Moldova’s territory. The case was reopened and Chernea considers that the procedural rules were seriously violated. “As a result of those fraudulent schemes, in 2004-2009 such Russian and Ukrainian companies as Prominvestbank, Aliciovskii Metalurghiceskii Zavod, Odessaoblenergo, Energoranoc, Sport Hotel, Silovye Sashiny, Pozit and others sustained losses of millions,” said Chernea. “The interests of Remington Worldwide Limited are protected by one of the members of the new ruling coalition,” he added, without giving names. Vadim Chernea said he was warned not to get involved, but he did not comply and several legal cases were opened against him as a result. Representatives of the mentioned companies say if the Prosecutor’s Office and the courts continue to commit illegalities, they will appeal to European courts to law to defend their rights.