The fierce enemy of Poroshenko and Plahotniuc was released from a Moldovan prison
Businessman Veaceslav Platon, sentenced to 18 years in prison for stealing a billion dollars from Moldovan banks, was released today. He spent 4 years in prison.
Point reports this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The decision to release Platon was made by the Ciocani sector court at the request of the Prosecutor General of Moldova, Alexander Stoianoglo, who stated that the case against the businessman was fabricated.
Platon himself believes that he went to jail on the instructions of the once all-powerful criminal oligarch Vlad Plahotniuc, who has now fled from Moldova.
“Today my main task is to restore justice, return the stolen billion to our people, carry out a complete cleansing of our country from Plahotniuc elements, and wage an all-out fight against Plahotniuc on all levels,” Platon told reporters.
Earlier, Advisor to the Moldovan President Ernest Vardanyan and Member of the National Parliament Bogdan Tsydrea stated that Plato would publish incriminating evidence not only on Plahotniuc, but also on the former President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, who was a partner and friend of the Moldovan oligarch.
The fact that Plahotniuc regards the threat as serious is evidenced by the stuffing in the media under his control. They are repeating the words of deputy Sergiu Litvinenko, who claims that Platon’s release was coordinated with the Russian special services, whose agent the businessman may be. Upon his release, the businessman announced his intention to sue Litvinenko.
Platon was extradited from Ukraine to Moldova in 2016. He claims that Poroshenko extradited him at Plahotniuc’s request for a bribe “with a friendly discount” of 3 million - either dollars or euros - and even provided his personal plane to take the businessman to Chisinau.
In June 2019, immediately after the change of power in Moldova and the escape of Plahotniuc, Platon initiated the initiation of a criminal case against Poroshenko, the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko and the former head of the SBU Vasyl Gritsak, submitting an application to the State Bureau of Investigation of Ukraine.
The articles under which Platon accuses Poroshenko, Lutsenko and Gritsak (“Exceeding power or official authority” and “Violation of the right to defense”) provide for court sentences of up to 10 years.
Let us note that in Russia they consider Plato to be involved in the case of the so-called “Moldavian Laundromat” - the withdrawal of 37 billion rubles from the Russian Federation.
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