Veaceslav Platon is investigated in a new criminal case started over tax evasion. According to the State Tax Service, as a private individual, Veaceslav Platon didn’t pay over 7 million lei taxes for the 2012-2015 fiscal period, IPN reports.
The Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime and Special Cases said the criminal proceedings were instituted based on the report compiled by the state prosecutor in September 2021. “For unclear reasons, the previous administration of the Prosecutor’s Office didn’t order to examine the prosecutor’s report, as the imperative provisions of the Penal Procedure Code stipulate, but only transmitted the report to the investigation bodies for information,” stated the institution.
It noted the actions of those in charge from the Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime and Special Cases who committed violations will be examined and steps will be taken in accordance with the law.
Veaceslav Platon is investigated for the illegal takeover of Moldova-Agroindbank and its management for the benefit of an organized criminal group. He was ordered to show up on November 11 to be indicted for a raider attack on Moldova-Agroindbank with money from the Russian Laundromat and to familiarize himself with the indictment of May 20, 2021 issued by the Investigation Department of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Veaceslav Platon was recently charged on three more counts and the prosecutors asked the court to place him in remand detention for causing damage totaling 19.5 million lei to the National Office of Motor Insurers.
Veaceslav Platon left Moldova in July. He is reportedly in London.
