Former MP summoned to prosecutor's office

Chisinau, 29 October /MOLDPRES/- Former MP Veaceslav Platon is summoned to the prosecutor's office on 2 November on raiding a bank with money from Russian laundromat.

According to the Prosecutor General's Office, in 2011-2015, several people using false documents and financial means from the Russian Laundromat organized the registration of transactions in the absence of the will of the legal owners or their successors, which allowed them to obtain a package of 28,051 shares of Moldova-Agroindbank worth 28 million lei.

According to the evidence in the criminal case, prosecutors found that, after obtaining the package of actions, the perpetrators to disguise the illicit origin of the stolen securities, traded the stolen shares to non-resident companies whose real beneficiary was Veaceslav Platon.

Thus, in the period 2011-2015, the perpetrators acquired 43.11% of the shares of Moldova-Agroindbank which were owned by a number of companies mostly non-residents, the real beneficiary of which became Veaceslav Platon, which takes allowed the latter to take control of this financial institution for a certain period.

The prosecutors claim that the actions of the persons involved in the raider attack fall within the legal framework according to the provisions of Article 190 (5) Criminal Code (Scam committed in particularly large proportions) and art. 243 (3) b) Criminal Code (Money laundering in particularly large proportions).

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