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PETRENCO REGARDS PARLIAMENT SPEAKER’S INITIATIVE ABOUT MEAL TICKETS AS A CORRUPTION SCHEME…

09 february, 2017
PETRENCO REGARDS PARLIAMENT SPEAKER’S INITIATIVE ABOUT MEAL TICKETS AS A CORRUPTION SCHEME… “Our Home is Moldova” (OHM) party leader Grigore Petrenco maintains that the draft law on meal tickets, proposed to the Parliament for consideration by legislature chairman Andrian Candu, is another corruption scheme on extorting citizens’ revenues.

 

The politician said at the Wednesday’s news conference at Infotag that politically controlled media companies are trying to present this initiative as a progressive innovation, a certain breakthrough, but in fact this is another way to deprive employees and employers of the money, earned by them.

 

He pointed at the fact that the notion “operator” is present in the draft law.

 

“Exactly these 2-3 companies with the status of mediator are the main participants of the signed agreements. Employers will be obliged to sign with them contracts on providing food to workers by means of the existing catering enterprises. The sum, charged for meal tickets, will be 45 lei per day. Moreover, the bill says that if a worker ate a meal that cost 30 lei, the rest – 15 lei – will not be repaid to him. It is not excluded that this money will go to the mediator operator”, the ex-MP said.

 

He also pointed that mediating companies will also be personally ordering the notorious tickets – not simple paper, but certain documents with three degrees of protection, including hologram.

 

“That is, operators may also get money from ticket printing”, Petrenco supposed, assessing the profit from the draft on meal tickets at a sum of 1 billion lei per year.

 

According to him, this is another mediating scheme, on which the ruling coalition coordinator Vlad Plahotniuc and his relative Candu are parasitizing.

 

“Pay attention to the fact that no profitable branch was left without attention. It is Plahotniuc’s favorite amusement – to put his hand into compatriots’ pockets. We are paying for electricity to mediator “Energoalians”, for incoming and outgoing calls – to the monopolist “Moldtelecom”. All these companies are hiding the size of their revenues on offshore accounts. The entire country was transformed by Plahotniuc’s clan into a giant offshore. This practice should urgently be stopped”, Petrenco said.

 

The politician called on the parliamentary opposition to pay a special attention to the proposed document.

 

“The bill has to be checked by the Competitiveness Council and the National Anti-Corruption Center. Moldovan trade unions should also recall about their liabilities, though I do not rely on them much. Lately, they are occupied with sharing the property that still stands untouched by new hosts since Soviet times”, Petrenco said.

 

…AND WILL INSIST ON PARTICIPATING IN PROCESS AGAINST ILAN SHOR AS THIRD PARTY

 

OHM leader Grigore Petrenco intends to strive to be included as third party into the criminal process against entrepreneur Ilan Shor, accused of stealing billions of lei from Banca de Economii.

 

He said to Infotag that he is preparing a suit to the Sectorul Buiucani court of Chisinau, in which he explains his position.

 

“The case the notorious businessman Ilan Shor is involved in is resonant. Each of us – Moldovan citizens – suffered from the bank fraud. It is a mystery why the authorities are holding trials against Shor and entrepreneur Veaceslav Platon behind closed doors. I intend to strive for participation in both processes as third party, along with the defense and the prosecution. Each of Moldovan citizens has to know everything that is said by trial participants and what is happening on hearings. Unfortunately, the Moldovan judiciary remains the most closed state structure, judging from recent criminal cases”, ex-MP said.

 

He explained that his previous suit on participating as civil plaintiff in Platon case was declined for far-fetched reasons.

 

“I was asked against whom my suit is directed? I said that against Veaceslav Platon. I also mentioned the sum I demand to be compensated. One of judges’ arguments for my non-allowing into courtroom is ridiculous, from my point of view. They said that the room judges are meeting in is too small to sit all comers. I registered a demand in Buiucani court chancellery that a bigger room to be provided for court hearings, as the building has larger facilities”, Petrenco said.

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