Participants in programme on getting Moldova's citizenship through investments to be subjected to more verifications

Chisinau, 12 July /MOLDPRES/ - People willing to get the passport of Moldova through the programme on obtaining the citizenship through investments will be subjected to thorough verifications, due to be carried out in four stages. State Secretary at the Economics and Infrastructure Ministry Vitalie Iurcu has made statements to this effect in an interview given exclusively to MOLDPRES.  
Thus, the international consortium due to work out and promote the programme will establish also the rules of verification of potential investors. The procedure includes four control filters. After the information on potential applicants for citizenship is considered by international institutions, they will be checked also by institutions from Moldova, such as the National Anticorruption Centre, Intelligence and Security Service and Interior Ministry. According to Iurcu, this will be made in order not to allow persons with a bad reputation, with criminal records, involved in money laundering, trafficking of drugs or weapons, be among them.    
Vitalie Iurcu also said that more foreign companies had showed interest n investing in Moldova. They are attracted by possibilities provided by the country.
”I have recently had a meeting with a company from Russia, which analyzes the  possibility to come to Moldova. It is about an investment worth about 250 million dollars,” Iurcu said. The company reasoned its decision by the fact that Moldova has a good position, has signed a Free Trade Agreement with EU, with Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries and with Turkey. At present, the government also initiates talks on the signing of the Free Trade Agreement with China.
The official said that the cabinet was willing to attract investments worth 1.3 billion euros in the next five years, as a result of the implementation of the programme on getting the citizenship through investments; yet, the sum might be even larger.
(Reporter N. Sandu, editor M. Jantovan)