The annulment of the extradition of convicted businessman Veaceslav Platon and his transfer to Ukraine could be the goal of the inspections carried out by the Prosecutor General’s Office at the Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime and Special Cases and the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office, considers former vice director of the National Anticorruption Center Cristina Țărnă. According to her, a smokescreen could be thus created for performing the transfer, IPN reports.
Cristina Țărnă noted that when the inspections at the two prosecutor’s offices were conducted, a number of things related to Veaceslav Platon took place, including his questioning on December 31 and the Ukrainian authorities’ appeal to annul the request for the extradition of the businessman.
According to her, the case of the former chief of the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office Viorel Morari is also related to a denouncement made by Veaceslav Platon. “It seems to me that not enough attention is devoted to the causality of the developments. If the extradition is annulled and Platon is transferred to Ukraine, this could be the goal of the inspections and of the investigation of Viorel Morari. It could be that smokescreen that would reduce the people’s and media’s attention to the extradition of Platon,” Cristina Țărnă stated in the talk show “Black Box” on TV8 channel.
Jurist Stanislav Pavlovski said the case of Platon represents a continuous violation of the penal law. The businessman was questioned only on December 31 after he had asked for this for several years. “As to his extradition, we all know how this procedure took place and this is hardly compatible with the similar procedures in the civilized world. Now many know that if a person is on the territory of another state and is extradited, this is investigated and convicted only for the crime for which he was extradited. The consent of the side that extradited is needed for changing the counts,” he stated.
Veaceslav Platon was charged with the manufacture of false cards and putting of these into circulation in the interests of the criminal organization and with money laundering in considerable amounts on Moldova’s territory. He was extradited from Ukraine of which he is a national. The trial as a result of which he got many years in jail was held behind closed doors.
