The Deputy Speaker of the Parliament, Alexandru Slusari, says that he was informed that former PDM leader Vlad Plahotniuc "appears in a criminal case regarding the criminal offenses of blackmail, deception, money laundering and of establishing a criminal group". The MP posted on Facebook a response to a request sent on August 1 to the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office. The written answer was signed by Octavian Iachimovchi, interim deputy prosecutor of the chief prosecutor of the Anti-corruption Prosecutor's Office.
The anti-corruption prosecutors inform the MP that "the circumstances set out in the proceedings are examined in a criminal case transferred from the relevant authorities of Romania, regarding the offenses of blackmail, deception, money laundering and establishing a criminal group".
In the request sent to the Anti-corruption Prosecutor's Office, Alexandru Slusari asks about "an official transaction of 75 million dollars between Vlad Plahotniuc and Veaceslav Platon, in December 2011, and an unofficial transaction of 5 million dollars for another company, controlled by Vlad Plahotniuc". "Because of the money movement scheme, the transaction is very suspicious. The transaction involved using a fictitious wood procurement contract, concluded one year after the respective transaction, a bank from Moldova, several banks in Switzerland and a company from Panama, which was involved in the Kroll dosier”, informed Alexandru Slusari.
The MP was curious if Moldovan resident Vlad Plahotniuc paid 9.6 million dollars in income tax to the state budget.
