President Igor Dodon said the leader of the Democratic Party (PDM) Vladimir Plahotniuc should be brought to Moldova in handcuffs before next year’s presidential elections. Also, all those who were involved in the bank fraud and in “state capture”, including Vladimir Plahotniuc, should be held accountable and the new prosecutor general Alexandr Stoianoglo, should deal with this, IPN reports.
President Dodon stated he possesses unsubstantiated information that Vladimir Plahotniuc is on the territory of the United States of America. “I’m convinced that the U.S. will be ready to extradite him when there is a relevant request. The ambassador told me this,” he noted in the talk show “Politics of Natalia Morari” on TV8 channel.
According to Igor Dodon, the National Anticorruption Center, by order of the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office, a month and a half ago remitted the relevant case to the competent institutions so that Vladimir Plahotniuc was put on the wanted list internationally. “This case was transmitted to the local office of Interpol based at the Ministry of the Interior. According to my information, the local office of Interpol in our country listed him wanted internationally. And this package of documents is now in Lion. We haven’t yet received an answer to our requests about this case,” said the official, noting this matter will be discussed in the upcoming meeting of the Supreme Security Council.
He stated the prosecutor general should focus on the investigation of the bank fraud and the case concerning the state capture, including of the former president of the PDM Vladimir Plahotniuc. Even if he earlier formed part of the PDM, Alexandr Stoianoglo should not hesitate to start criminal cases against former colleagues if it is the case. He could also investigate him as the President if need be.
Igor Dodon said there are now two groups at the Prosecutor General’s Office that kept the business community and society in general on pins and needles. These two groups were created at the time of the previous administration of the Democratic Party. “These groups were formed when Vladimir Plahotniuc held power and they were maintained, but they were angry at each other. Vladimir Plahotniuc left and these groupings started to struggle between them. One of these decided they should obey Maia Sandu and Andrei Năstase and these two leaders thought they could use them to clean up the system. But one of these groups used Sandu and Năstase in their struggle against the other group.”
According to President Dodon, Stoianoglo does not form part of any of these groupings and this is his biggest plus. “You should know that the members of the groups that struggle against each other up to the last moment tried to prevent the appointment of Stoianoglo as prosecutor general. Now we have a professional prosecutor general who should clarify all these things.”
Igor Dodon considers the new prosecutor general should form his team and then set up commissions for appraising the prosecutors through the agency of the Superior Council of Prosecutors and should start to clean up the system.
He said he supports the idea that the work of prospectors should be also assessed by foreign experts and representatives of civil society.
