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/ 12 January, 2026

Former MPs, state officials of Moldova, including Vlad Plahotniuc, Serghei Iaralov, to testify in Kuliok file

A total of 11 witnesses, including the former leader of the Democratic Party, Vladimir Plahotniuc, his former adviser, Serghei Iaralov, as well as former Prime Minister Pavel Filip, will be heard in the Kuliok case, in which former president Igor Dodon is the defendant. The judges of the Supreme Court of Justice today took a decision to this effect.

Although state prosecutors asked for the hearing of 17 witnesses, the judges gave the green light for only 11 people, among whom, there are former MPs Iurie Renita, Vladimir Cebotari, Dumitru Diacov, Andrian Candu, Adrian Albu, current MP Lilian Carp, as well as former Prime Minister Pavel Filip.

Igor Dodon has earlier pleaded not guilty and reiterated that the images in which he appeared had been allegedly doctored.

The Kuliok case was resumed in late last November, after the panel of judges had been changed and the trial practically started from scratch.

During the previous proceedings, the court heard 15 prosecution witnesses and examined numerous documents and official records.

The criminal investigation in the case generically called Kuliok was reopened on May 18, 2022, after the Chisinau Court of Appeal overturned the Chisinau Court’s ruling not to initiate criminal proceedings against former president Igor Dodon.

The case is based on a video recording from June 2019, in which Dodon appears alongside Vladimir Plahotniuc and Serghei Iaralov.

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