Vlad Plahotniuc sued the Council of the European Union
The former leader of the Democratic Party of Moldova (PDM), the oligarch Vlad Plahotniuc sued the Council of the European Union, demanding the annulment of the decision of May 30, taken by the European institution, by which restrictive measures were imposed on him in view of the destabilizing actions of Republic of Moldova. The request was registered on August 9, but was published in the Official Journal of the European Union on September 25.
Vladimir Plahotniuc asks the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) to annul the decision of the Council of the European Union and the Regulation implementing the decision of May 30 regarding restrictive measures in order to destabilize the Republic of Moldova.
In support of the court action, Vladimir Plahotniuc invoked the evaluation errors that led to his inclusion in the list of persons sanctioned by the European Union. The former politician also found a violation of his rights under the Treaty on European Union and the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.
We remind that, on May 30, the General Affairs Council of the European Union adopted the list of the first persons sanctioned based on the new sanctions regime of the community block, for countering the destabilizing actions of the Republic of Moldova. The list includes Ilan Șor, Marina Tauber, Vlad Plahotniuc, the leader of the PACE Party, Gheorghe Cavcaliuc, and the Russian businessman Igor Ciaika, a close associate of the former president and leader of the Socialist Party, Igor Dodon.
We remind you that the former leader of the Democratic Party of Moldova, Vladimir Plahotniuc, fled the country in June 2019, after ceding power to the ACUM and PSRM coalition. In September of the same year, the oligarch was put under international prosecution. On the table of the prosecutors are six files in which he is accused of fraud and money laundering in particularly large proportions, the creation and management of a criminal organization, illicit enrichment, abuse of power, active corruption and forgery in public documents. For the crimes committed, the law stipulates punishment in the form of imprisonment from 8 to 15 years. In the "Bank fraud" file, the prosecutors seized assets worth 7.5 billion lei.
