BUSINESSMAN VEACESLAV PLATON WRITES OPEN LETTER TO PGO

Entrepreneur Veaceslav Platon, arrested on suspicion of financial machinations, addressed an open letter to Acting Prosecutor General Eduard Harunjen, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the USA to Moldova James D. Pettit and Ambassador Pirkka Tapiola, Head of the European Union Delegation to Moldova.

In the letter, published in social networks, the businessman reminds that it has been more than a months since he gave evidences, which expose Vlad Plahotniuc and his grouping of organizing the stealing of the billion from the Moldovan banking system.

“On the example of stealing US$130 million by means of Victoriabank, mechanisms and schemes of the theft have been completely disclosed, its organizers and executors have been named”, wrote Platon, who insisted on interrogating Plahotniuc, Speaker of the Parliament Andrian Candu, former National Bank of Moldova President Dorin Dragutanu and other persons, directly involved in this crime or having information about it.

The businessman wonders why the Prosecutor General’s Office is ignoring not only his evidences and petitions, but the Kroll company report also.

He said that this is the type of PGO Plahotniuc needs and prevented that Harunjen will not be able to keep the post at the point of bayonets and in an atmosphere of nationwide hatred.

This is the third Platon’s letter from the detention. Its authenticity was confirmed by lawyer Anna Ursachi.

Infotag’s dossier: Infotag’s dossier: Veaceslav Platon was detained by Interpol in Kiev on July 25. The investigation maintains that the Platon group received in BEM about 1 billion lei within the period of 2011 through 2015. He is accused of large-scale money laundering, as well as money embezzlement by means of providing credits to legal entities under suspicious pledges. Also, Platon is called “raider #1 in CIS” and is regarded as one of the main coordinators of withdrawing over US$22 billion from Russia through Moldovan banks into offshore accounts