The National Unity Party (PUN) on July 25 submitted a denouncing statement to the Prosecutor General’s Office by which it requests to determine if the Shor Party hid or tried to hide the identity of the persons who made donations in the election campaign prior to the Chisinau early mayoral elections and if foreign criminal organizations are not behind these donations. The announcement was made by the PUN executive president Anatol Salaru in a news conference on July 25, IPN reports.

Anatol Salaru said society witnesses, with the power’s consent, a series of impudent attacks on the part of Ilan Shor on the opposition, in the style of the 1990s. Ilan Shor, who is one of the artisans of the stolen bank funds and a man of Moscow, threatens journalists and politicians who are inconvenient to him. He uses the money from the stolen US$ 1 billion to build the image of a respectable politician.

“It is inacceptable for the state institutions to allow an international offender who was involved in one of the biggest thefts in the history of Europe to do what he wants unrestrictedly. I think there are enough indicators for the Prosecutor’s Office to take legal action as the money used by Shor definitely comes not from honest people, but from crime areas,” stated the PUN executive president.

Anatol Salaru also said that in the election campaign prior to the Chisinau mayoral elections, Ilan Shor used the money received from Moscow. This thing was confirmed by the court of law that excluded the Shor Party’s candidate for mayor Regina Apostolova from the electoral race. Even if time already passed since the mayoral elections, the authorities haven’t yet confiscated those money, as the law provides, and haven’t opened an inquiry to see if those money didn’t come from organized criminal organizations.