Politics

CAPITAL AMNESTY IS NOT A REFORM BUT MONEY LAUNDERING – EXPERT

15 august, 2018

The much-advertized package of laws on the so-called capital amnesty, approved by the Moldovan Parliament on the last days of its Spring-Summer Session in late July, is not a reform – it is obvious money laundering, believes Alexei Tulbure, Moldova’s former Permanent Representative at the Council of Europe and the United Nations, incumbent Director of the Institute of Oral History of Moldova.

The expert stated on the Balti Television last night that by having promulgated the document, Moldovan President Igor Dodon has in fact become an accomplice in the ‘crime of the century’.

“Personally I believe that Dodon is a partner, a shareholder. So he may now sue himself in court. The entire leadership of the Party of Socialists are participating in various schemes. They have concluded strict, ‘cemented’ agreements with the ruling Democratic Party, so now the Socialists simply cannot abandon these criminal mutual-guarantee bonds”, said the diplomat.

In his opinion, the very institution of the president in Moldova has long been captured by the almighty country ruler, DP Chairman Vlad Plahotniuc.

“Dodon is an absolutely unfailing institution promoting decisions necessary for Plahotniuc and for the country leadership. It’s not for the first time that President Dodon is framing the Party of Socialists, so his party comrades have to constantly slip out and lie. That was how it happened with the mixed election system, when the Socialists were initially against it categorically and then suddenly stood up strongly in support of it. Presently we can observe an analogous situation: in the Parliament, the Socialist faction boycotts voting and a little bit later Dodon and the party leadership start saying that “the country needs this” [the said package of laws]. As a result, President Dodon promulgates the package that was supported in the Parliament only by Plahotniuc’s Democratic majority”, said Alexei Tulbure.

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