KROLL REPORTS CONTAIN SUPPOSITIONS, BUT NOT PROOFS – BRITISH LAWYER

The Kroll 1 and Kroll 2 reports on financial offenses in Moldova on stealing money from three banks contain not proofs and arguments, but simple presumptions and impressions, presented as absolute truth. Such an opinion was expressed by British regal lawyer James Ramsden at the Tuesday’s press conference.

The lawyer of the Quintel Intelligence Agency (which is defending the interests of Orhei Mayor Ilan Shor) reminded that the investigators from the Kroll do not disclose the main beneficiaries of bank robbery. According to him, there are suspicions that they use some data that counteract to the national and international law.

“In our opinion, the Kroll 1 and Kroll 2 reports contain only unjustified claims and this is not supported by objective analysis of facts”, said Ramsden, who is specialized on financial and banking investigations.

According to him, the Kroll reports do not analyze the data or proofs of the fact that before 2013, the largest of three banks – the Banca de Economii belonged to the state and was controlled personally by the then Premier Vlad Filat.

“Nevertheless, the reports were cited as a conclusion, grounded on untrue proofs. These documents are not worthy to be recognized they got in Moldova”, the British lawyer stated.

“The case on fraud received wide publicity, but that is all. Kroll agents had some disaccord with the National Bank of Moldova (NBM) on their activity. In particular these concerned the terms of money returning. Besides, Kroll did not hope for a big reward for funds’ returning”, the lawyer said.

Director of the Quintel Intelligence Nicholas Connon said that he sees no logic in Kroll’s ignoring the Shor giving himself up. According to him, the Shor statement deserves at least to be studied.

He stressed that unlike Kroll reports, the Quintel Intelligence report does not try to impose to the society any particular opinion.

“We do not impose our point of view. We just provide proofs on the basis of which each can make one’s own conclusions”, Connon said.

Moldovan lawyer Denis Ulanov explained that the presented research of British colleagues is a complete alternative to the analysis, presented in Moldova before.

“This document is just the beginning of a great path on proving Ilan Shor’s innocence. All our legal actions in this regard will be presented to the public opinion”, he promised.

Infotag’s dossier: Shor was arrested on June 22, 2016 on charges of financial machinations. A year later, the Sectorul Buiucani court of Chisinau sentenced Shor to 7.5 years. The court commuted the charges to causing large-scale damage by means of deception or abuse of trust instead of large-scale fraud. Before issuing a final verdict the court released Shor at large under judicial review. The verdict was challenged in the Chisinau Appeals Chamber both by Shor defense and the prosecutors, who demanded for Shor 19 years. Back in winter 2018 the case was transmitted to the Cahul Appeal Chamber, but the examination on the merits of the case has not started yet. The hearings are planned for August 6.