U.S. Ambassador says United States prepared to undertake also other measures of sanctioning corrupt Moldovans
13:32 | 16.01.2020 Category: Political
Chisinau, 16 January /MOLDPRES/ - U.S. Ambassador to Moldova Derek J. Hogan today issued a public statement, which reads that the United States is prepared to undertake also other measures to sanction the corrupt people of Moldova.
The declaration reads that the United States will continue promoting the turning more responsible of the corrupt people from the region and all over the world: ‘We will continue backing the efforts to edify a justice system which is to treat all citizens equally and punish those guilty, no matter the power or position. Nobody should be above the law.”
At the same time, the American official noted that he encouraged the Moldovan cabinet’s promise to reform the justice and fight the high-level corruption. “These stay basic priorities, with the Moldovan government sharing with us and other international partners its preliminary plans to make this promise fulfill,” the statement reads.
Ambassador Hogan said that the institutions of combating corruption had made progress in the key criminal investigations and urged the leaders of Moldova “to protect the independence of the institutions of fighting corruption, to empower reformers within these institutions and protect them from interferences from outside.”
On 13 January 2020, a press release by the U.S. Department of State informed that the former leader of the Moldovan Democratic Party (PDM), Vladimir Plahotniuc, and his family were not eligible to get entry visa for the United States.
