Prosecutors bring into force procedure of finishing criminal prosecution in case of former leader of Moldovan Democratic Party

Chisinau, 7 September /MOLDPRES/ - The Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office (PA) today informed that it had started the procedure of finishing the criminal prosecution in absentia of defendant Vlad Plahotniuc in the file generally titled, Bank Fraud.  

According to PA, in this respect, on 22 August 2022, the case prosecutor submitted an approach to the investigating judge at the Chisinau Court, thereby asking for the agreement to finish the criminal prosecution, in absentia of defendant Vlad Plahotniuc.

In the file generally titled, Bank Fraud, the former leader of the Moldovan Democratic Party (PDM), Vlad Plahotniuc, was charged with the creation and leading of a criminal organization, swindle and money laundering. The event he is accused of has as reference the 2013-2015 years, when Plahotniuc received in accounts, through resident companies founded by Ilan Shor and through interposed persons, financial means worth over 39 million dollars and 3.5 million euros, which came from bank loans fraudulently got from the Commercial Banks Unibank, Banca Sociala (Social Bank) and Banca de Economii (Savings Bank) stock companies.