The Government of Moldova lies when it says that the country is poor and does not have money for social projects, said diplomat Fiodor Ghelici.
In a news conference at IPN, the appointed ambassador of the International Economic Development Organization to Moldova said that during two years he has tried to sign an agreement with the Government for the organization that he represents to finance tens of social projects, but this accord is ignored for the reason that the politicians will be unable to get kickback within these projects.
Fiodor Ghelici also said that he first made public the International Economic Development Organization’s proposal to finance a number of social projects in Moldova in the period when Vlad Filat, who is now under arrest, was Prime Minister. This has never provided an answer to him. Afterward, he made the same request to Iurie Leanca, but also didn’t receive an answer. The third time the application was submitted to Chiril Gaburici this summer. However, Gaburici resigned shortly after things started to move on as a result of a meeting. The fourth time the request was made to Valeriu Strelet, but an accord couldn’t be signed during his three-month tenure.
Fiodor Ghelici considers their requisition remains unanswered because the Organization’s regulations provide that the money go directly to the project and the country’s authorities get nothing. The diplomat noted he was told in private that the accord would have been signed long ago if the Organization had been represented by an exponent of a political party, not by a ‘Ghelici’ with whom they cannot reach an agreement.
Fiodor Ghelici said the money stolen from the banking system, plus the support provided by the National Bank to the three problematic banks, add up to over 35 billion lei. This money could be used to pay pensions of at least 1,500 lei to 700,000 pensioners during over 30 years. Thus, the country is not poor. The authorities simply commit ‘genocide’.
The diplomat added that Vlad Filat’s arrest is just a show that imitates the fight against corruption, this being only the ‘top of the iceberg’. In reality, the system remained the same and the politicians continue to steal and not to accept projects that could really improve people’s lives so as to be able to ask for new grants for the reason that the country is the poorest in Europe.
