The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office of Moldova summoned Veaceslav Platon on November 2 to be charged with a raider attack on MAIB with money from the Russian Laundromat.
This was reported by the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office. “Taking into account the increased public interest in investigations of actions committed by some individuals in 2011-2015 in order to establish control over the financial institution CB Moldova-Agroindbank and manage this institution in the interests of an organized criminal group, we inform you that the relevant investigations refer to facts falling within the scope of the law in accordance with the provisions of Art. 190 p. (5) of the Criminal Code (large-scale fraud) and art. 243 paragraph (3) letter b) of the Criminal Code (money laundering on an especially large scale),” the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office said in a press release. It notes that within the framework of the investigation it was established that in order to implement the criminal plan, the criminals, using false documents and funds received from the so-called Russian "Laundromat", organized the registration of transactions in the absence of the will of the legal owners or their successors, which allowed receive a package of 28,051 shares of Moldova-Agroindbank for a total of 28 million lei. According to the materials of the criminal case, the Prosecutor's Office established that after receiving the block of shares, in order to hide the illegal origin of the stolen shares, they were sold to non-resident companies, the real beneficiary of which was Veaceslav Platon. As noted, in 2011-2015 the attackers received 43.11% of the shares of Moldova-Agroindbank, which were owned by a number of companies, mostly non-residents, the real beneficiary of which was Veaceslav Platon, which allowed the latter to gain some control over the bank. “The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office summoned Veaceslav Platon on November 2, 2021 to bring charges,” the agency said in a press release. // 29.10.2021 – InfoMarket
