A former deputy prime minister will face the law for making false statements. PA refers case to court
The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office announces the completion of the criminal prosecution and referral to court for examination of the merits of the criminal case against a former deputy minister of economy of the Republic of Moldova, charging him with the crime of false statements.
The criminal prosecution was initiated in November 2021 by the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office on the basis of a journalistic investigation by rise.md.
According to the accumulated materials, the accused, in the period 2016-2019, holding the position of Deputy Minister of Economy of the Republic of Moldova, later also holding the position of Secretary of State of the Ministry of Economy and Infrastructure, intentionally entered in his declarations of wealth and personal interests false data regarding the possession of several non-existent bank accounts and the acquisition of financial means in particularly large proportions from the alienation of real estate from a luxury residential block in mun. Chisinau, in which he invested several assets in the period 2014-2017, transactions that did not actually take place, including intentionally not entering in these statements, for the period 2016-2019 several real estate in the form of agricultural land in Orhei r-nul acquired in 2018 and registered in the name of his wife, as well as a plot of land for construction acquired on the territory of Romania, in the amount of over 350,000 lei (MDL).
At the same time, the subject under investigation intentionally did not indicate in his declarations of assets and interests persons for the period 2017-2019 a luxury vehicle owned through an affiliated company, purchased in 2017 at a price of about 700,000 lei (MDL), 7 accounts opened in a bank institution in Austria with a turnover of over 400,000 euros, as well as assets in the amount of 50,000 US dollars held in the share capital of a non-resident trading company in Belize, registered in the name of the wife.
The PA states that the accused has admitted to the acts committed, but qualified them as actions committed in error, and the criminal case has been sent to the Buiucani Court of Chisinau for examination on the merits.
If found guilty, the former deputy minister faces a fine of between 20 000 and 30 000 lei or imprisonment of up to one year, in both cases with deprivation of the right to hold certain positions or to exercise a certain activity for a period of between two and five years.
