Diagram - Heist of the century in Moldova

The embezzlement of one billion US dollars from the National Reserves of the National Bank in November 2014 made Moldova infamously known in the whole world. To perpetrate a theft of such a magnitude (one eighth of the Moldovan GDP), the complicity of the core state institutions (the Government, the National Bank, the Prosecutor General's Office, the National Anticorruption Centre, as shown in diagrams below) was inevitably required. All these institutions act at the behest of Vladimir Plahotniuc and are under his absolute control. To these days, after more than three a half years from the robbery of an entire country, not a single cent is recouped, no effective measure is deliberately carried out, not a single inquiry or interpellation is made by Moldovan prosecutors. This is self-explanatory.

Signatories of the heist: Andrian Candu (Plahotniuc’s godson, then Minister of Economy and current Chairman of Moldovan Parliament); Iurie Leanca (then Prime minister) and Dorin Dragutanu (then Governor of the National Bank of Moldova)

Signatories of the heist, Chiril Gaburici (then Prime minister and current Minister of Economy) and Pavel Filip (current Prime minister), and Ilan Shor

Sheer facts:

GOVERNMENT: As shown in the above diagram, all criminal decisions were taken in secret, by the then Prime minister Leanca, the then Minister of Economy Candu, and the next Prime minister Gaburici. Within those secret meetings, Candu, urged the Government to allocate the billion to the Shor’s banks (transcripts here). Candu (the godson of Plahotniuc) is the current Chairman of the Moldovan Parliament. Both Leanca and Gaburici have been lately brought back into the Government. Despite the conspucuous fact of singing the theft, neither Leanca, nor Candu, nor Gaburici are under any investigative proceedings, three and a half half years after the embezzlement.

THE NATIONAL BANK: The Governor of the National Bank, Dorin Dragutanu, resigned on 21 September 2015, a year after signing the release of funds to the three banks of Shor. In the very eve of his resignation, Dragutanu had a secret meeting with Candu at the Nobil Hotel, which belongs to Plahotniuc [link here]. Dragutanu is not investigated to these days.

JUDICIARY: According to the American investigator Kroll, Ilan Shor is the central figure, through whom the embezzlement of $1 bln (one eighth of the country’s GDP) was perpetrated. He was formally sentenced on 21 June 2017 by the Buiucani Court (the court dealing with all cases sensitive to Plahotniuc) and immediately released(!) [link here] Since then Shor is at large, doing politics and feeling no constraints, while the judges in his cases got promoted. The above diagram also reveals the complicit cover-up of Poalelungi, the Chairman of the Supreme Court and a crony of Plahotniuc.

PROSECUTION: As revealed in the Kroll report, the billion was funnelled through Latvian banks. Three years after the heist, the Prosecutors’ Office of Latvia confirmed that no inquiry (interpelation) has been ever received from the Moldovan prosecutors [link here]. The Prosecutor General of Moldova, appointed by Plahotniuc, is tasked to prevent any investigation and protect the perpetrators.

CONCLUSION: Although the money can be traced up to the final beneficiary within weeks, the Moldovan authorities are commanded to oppose to any effective investigation. The billion is not found because it is not sought. All the aforementioned institutions (government, judiciary, National Bank, Prosecutor General’s Office) are under undivided unipersonal control of Plahotniuc. The US and EU taxpayers contributed to the formation of the National Reserves of Moldova, therefore they have been robbed along with the Moldovans. Given the complicity of Moldovan authorities, only an international investigation can bring the perpetrators to justice and recoup the stolen billion.

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The embezzlement of $1 billion from National Reserves, explained simply: