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RENATO USATII SAYS HE INTENDS TO VISIT SCOTLAND YARD
Renato Usatii, Partidul Nostru [Our Party] leader and the Mayor of Balti city, has stated an intention to go to London to visit Scotland Yard.
Usatii, who has been staying in Moscow since last August in apprehension of a possible arrest if only he appears in Moldova, organized a Skype press conference in Infotag on Tuesday and stated that he is ready to stand justice “in any European Union country but only not in Moldova”.
“I am ready to stand before the law, but not before the judges and prosecutors bought by oligarch Vlad Plahotniuc. And I would willingly return to Moldova and would give myself to Moldovan justice, if only it were a normal, civilized justice. But in Moldova, the entire judiciary system works against citizens. Our system has been oriented to reloading the responsibility for crimes committed by Plahotniuc and his regime onto other people. The embezzlement of one billion euros from three Moldovan banks was hung on ex-premier Vlad Filat alone, huge money laundering – on businessman Veaceslav Platon alone, though Plahotniuc and his surrounding not only participated in the embezzlement schemes but had a direct relation to working them out”, said Renato Usatii.
According to him, the fabrication of criminal trials against opponents and former business partners is a technology conceived and extensively used by the incumbent Moldovan ruling regime.
“The whole country has been watching for three years now how criminal cases are started against me and other Our Party activists on ridiculous, invented pretexts. First it was Premier Vladimir Filat who tried to annihilate me as a politician. Now this noble job is being continued by Plahotniuc”, Renato Usatii said, and reaffirmed that he had not stolen even a single leu from Universalbank and had no relation whatever to the attempted murder of Russian financier German Gorbuntsov.
Usatii stressed that Gorbuntsov, who was shot at in London in 2012, was brought to Moldova yet in 2008 by Plahotniuc’s closest partner – Sergey Yaralov.
“Gorbuntsov, who embezzled hundreds of million dollars from Russia, showed these gentlemen his schemes of stealing money from banks. For an experiment, they siphoned off huge means from Universalbank. Both Filat and Ilan Shor are in fact Gorbuntsov’s students. However, as long as Gorbuntsov was staying in Moldova, not a single litigation was started against him. But after his departure, trials were launched one after another – on charges of money laundering, and thefts from banks, and what not”, said Usatii.
In his words, he is actively collaborating with the Romanian and British law enforcement agencies.
“They are running investigations not because there were applications from me. No, I was summoned to give evidence as a witness. They have started their own, independent investigations. In particular, I know for sure there are sound pieces of evidence that Plahotniuc and people from his surrounding were involved into placing the order for murdering German Gorbuntsov. I know that it was by their command that professional killer Vitalie Proca was provided with a weapon delivered specially for him for the assassination to London”, said Our Party leader.
Usatii said that he is wanted by the Interpol as a person staying in the CIS area.
“But I can appear almost anywhere, except perhaps in Ukraine because that country is ruled by a personality very much like our Plahotniuc – by President Petro Poroshenko”, said Renato Usatii.
He explained that in the nearest time he will show up in a EU country, shoot a video film about this and post it on the Internet.
“I want everyone to see that I am not hiding and that I can move quite freely. But due to the criminal litigations started against me, I must attach a serious attention to my own security”, said Renato Usatii.
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