Representatives of a group of Victoriabank shareholders want to sue the Official Gazette for refusing to publish an announcement regarding the summoning of the General Assembly of Shareholders.

Angela Maxim, jurist of the owner of 5% shares in the bank, told a press conference that upon learning of some violations committed by the bank management, a group of shareholders that together own 25% decided to summon the General Assembly in order to elect a new leadership for the bank.

On December 31, the Gazette published the announcement that the General Assembly of Victoriabank shareholders is summoned by the board of directors February 6. “We have nothing against the date. The issue is that the assembly was convened by the board of directors, which, according to legal procedures, cannot summon the assembly without evidence stating that the Administration Council cannot be convened,” stressed Angela Maxim.

On January 11, 2014, several shareholders decided to summon the extraordinary meeting of the General Assembly on February 28 and went to publish the announcement in the Gazette. After several hours of waiting, their request was accepted for examination. The next day, the Moldpress agency, which publishes the Gazette, accepted to publish the announcement, but the next day it changed its mind.

Ion Dorogoi, representative of Corplexus LTD and shareholder at Victoriabank, claims that the bank jurist was seen in the agency publishing the Gazette one day before the agency refused the shareholders to publish their announcement about the summoning of General Assembly.

Shareholders claim that although the procedure stipulated by the law was infringed, the National Commission of the Financial Market (CNPF) validated the board of directors' decision to summon the General Assembly on February 6. The shareholders' representatives say that CNPF didn't have the right to do this. They request the General Assembly to be summoned for an extraordinary meeting on February 28, respecting all legal procedures.