Plahotniuc's name surfaced at the trial in Moscow
The Tverskoy Court of Moscow arrested Oleg Kuzmin, a former member of the board of directors of the European Express Bank, for two months. He is accused of participating in a criminal community that was involved in the withdrawal of funds from Russia according to the so-called Moldavian scheme.
This was reported by the Kommersant publication, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
As it became clear from the materials read out in court, the essence of the “Moldovan scheme” was that fictitious debts of Russian companies to local legal entities and individuals were registered in Moldova. Then, according to the decisions of the Moldovan courts, the corresponding amounts were written off from the correspondent accounts of the “debtor” companies in Russian banks.
According to materials from Moldovan regulatory and law enforcement agencies, more than 100 Russian companies and 20 banks were involved in the fraud, and a total of hundreds of billions of rubles were involved.
As follows from the materials read out in the Tver court, Oleg Kuzmin, according to the investigation, knew and directly communicated with the organizers of the criminal community involved in the withdrawal of funds from Russia: the former chairman of the ruling Democratic Party in Moldova, oligarch Vlad Plahotniuc and the notorious Moldovan businessman Vyacheslav Platon ( sentenced at home to 25 years in prison). Together, law enforcement officers believe, they carried out financial scams.
Earlier, the investigative department of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs filed a charge in absentia of drug smuggling against the Moldovan oligarch Vlad Plahotniuc, who is on the run.
According to the investigation, he was part of the leadership of a transnational criminal community that organized a channel for the smuggling of especially large quantities of the narcotic drug hashish from North Africa in transit through the countries of the European Union to the CIS countries and their subsequent illegal sale, including on the territory of the Russian Federation.
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