Transnistrian refugees, who were provided with social housing in Chisinau, identified 17 million lei divergence between the documentary and the real cost of the apartment house, built for them.

 

Chairman of the Transnistrian Refugee Movement Anatol Bizgu said during Monday’s news conference at Infotag that according to Chisinau Mayor Dorin Chirtoaca, building of the house on Milescu Spataru street was worth 60 million lei, received as credit from the Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB).

 

“We have checked the data. Documents say that slightly more than 43 million lei were spent in total. Where are the remaining 17 million lei? Who will be repaying these money – city authorities or tenants?” wonders Bizgu.

 

He noted that many court hearings have been conducted, including in the European Court, and refugees have won many of them, but the Chisinau Primaria [city government] refuses to fulfill court decisions.

 

“We submitted an address to the National Anti-Corruption Center (NACC) with the demand to sort things out with financial frauds and embezzlement in especially large amounts”, added Chairman of the Transnistrian refugees movement.

 

He hopes that law enforcement will investigate frauds and will soon present the results.

 

According to Bizgu, refugees are not going to pay extra money, while someone is stealing millions.

 

“On April 15, the regular court hearing will take place. I hope that the decision will be in favor of refugees, but if Primaria refuses to fulfill it as well, long protests will resume, despite the fact that last time an administrative case has been started against them and a 2 thousand lei fine was imposed”, said he.

 

Bizgu said that refugees and Transnistrian conflict participants are going to fight till the end and will not allow anyone preying on those, who suffered as a result of 1992 events.

 

Infotag’s dossier: Within the project on building housing for those needy, worth 7.6 million euros, 64% of which were provided by the CEB, while 36% is the Moldovan Government contribution, two apartment blocks were built in Chisinau. Money was provided by the bank for 20 years with 1% interest rate and 5-year grace period in payments, under the condition of prohibition to privatize apartments until the credit is repaid.