Poroshenko's Moldovan nightmare looms
Following the films with Biden, another portion of compromising evidence on former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko may be made public in Moldova if businessman Vyacheslav Platon, who is currently serving his sentence, is released.
Moldovan Prosecutor General Alexander Stoianoglo did not rule out this possibility.
“Plato’s case was completely fabricated. The accusation was based on a deliberately distorted assessment and misinterpretation of the facts. We will ask the court to consider the case in a transparent manner,” Stoianoglo said.
Platon was extradited from Ukraine in 2016 with the personal participation and on Poroshenko’s plane at the request of his friend, the criminal Moldovan oligarch Vlad Plahotniuc, who has now fled to the United States.
“Vyacheslav Platon at large is also a nightmare for Petro Poroshenko. As you know, “Gunpowder” and “Plakha” were (and most likely remain) business partners. Petsya, have you stocked up on validol? If anything, Vlad Georgic will send it to you from Miami,” wrote Advisor to the Moldovan President Ernst Vardanyan in his Telegram channel.
Member of the Moldovan Parliament Bogdan Tsydrea also writes that the Moldovan oligarch and the former Ukrainian president are closely connected. He hopes that after the leaking of incriminating evidence against Poroshenko, Plahotniuc will be extradited from the United States.
“In fact, Poroshenko and Plahotniuc are one case. If they started putting pressure on Poroshenko, that means it’s a bad call for Plahotniuc too,” Tsydrya wrote in his Telegram channel.
In December 2019, the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Ruslan Ryaboshapka sent an official letter to his Moldovan counterpart Alexander Stoianoglo, in which he asked for the return of businessman Vyacheslav Platon, who was extradited from Kyiv in 2016. But in January 2020, the Prosecutor General's Office of Moldova rejected this request.
Back 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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