
The gas debt of Moldovagaz to Gazprom is a corporate debt, not a public debt of Moldova, and the shareholders are discussing a solution to this problem and possible ways to partially pay off this commercial debt - Vadim Ceban.
The Chairman of Moldovagaz Board said this in an interview with the "Eurasia. Expert". Commenting on the latest decision of the International Arbitration Court at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation, which fully satisfied the claim of Gazprom to recover from Moldovagaz $246.4 million in debt for the supplied gas, as well as the statements of the President of Moldova, Maia Sandu, asserting that these are Transnistrian consumers' debts, and Chisinau should not repay it, the head of Moldovagaz noted that, unfortunately, this situation has a pronounced political color, and it is often presented as the state debt of Moldova. “These statements, to put it mildly, do not correspond to reality. This is an exclusively corporate debt of Moldovagaz to Gazprom PJSC. It is in this vein that the texts of the final minutes of the annual meetings of the Russian-Moldovan intergovernmental commission are maintained. The debt of Transnistria is the debt of the Tiraspoltransgaz enterprise to Moldovagaz and nothing else,” Vadim Ceban said. According to him, the judicial authorities of Moldova have issued several orders to collect a $5.5 billion debt in favor of Moldovagaz, and several more claims are under consideration. “However, taking into account the specifics of the existing relations between Chisinau and Tiraspol, there is no need to talk about their actual enforcement. As of today, there are no effective instruments that would allow ensuring the implementation of the decisions of the Moldovan courts on the territory of the Left Bank of the Dniester,” said the Chairman of the Board of Moldovagaz. According to him, in this situation, the resolution of the problem lies in the plane of relations between the shareholders of Moldovagaz JSC represented by Gazprom PJSC and the Public Property Agency of Moldova. “Discussions on this issue are underway, and there are several possible ways to partially repay this, I emphasize, commercial debt,” said Vadim Ceban. // 28.01.2021 - InfoMarket.