Dodon disrupts Jasmine's husband's dubious deal with Russian investors
Chisinau airport will be returned to state ownership.
Moldovan President Igor Dodon stated this during a “direct line” on the Odnoklassniki social network, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“The airport needs to be returned to the state. There is a parliamentary commission. She finishes work in September. I think in September she should propose to the government to terminate the concession agreement,” Dodon said.
Previously, he stated that he dissuaded Russian investors from buying the Chisinau airport, which until recently was in concession from the company Avia Invest, affiliated with the entrepreneur and singer Jasmine’s husband Ilan Shor, who fled the country after the change of government.
However, after this, the Russian Kommersant reported that despite the warning, Roman Trotsenko’s AEON group again showed interest in obtaining a concession for the Chisinau airport, starting negotiations with Shor’s representatives.
Subject matter experts call the airport promising: in a few years, passenger traffic could almost double, to 5 million people a year. Now the airport's passenger traffic in 2018 amounted to 2,9 million people, it is generated by labor migrants from Moldova to Europe and Russia, as well as residents of Western Ukraine who want to get to Russia.
On June 21, 2017, Ilan Shor was sentenced by a Chisinau court to 7 years and 6 months in prison, to be served in a semi-closed penitentiary, in the case of “the theft of a billion” from the banking system of Moldova. The verdict was appealed, and while the case is being considered in the appellate court, Ilan Shor is at large and was even elected as a deputy of the Moldovan parliament on the list of his personal Shor party. Shor is now on the international wanted list.
If you find an error, please select a piece of text and press Ctrl + Enter.
Thank you!
Now the editors are aware.