{"id":448394,"date":"2020-06-16T18:52:20","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T18:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/?p=448394"},"modified":"2020-10-12T18:28:41","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T18:28:41","slug":"the-general-prosecutors-office-requested-the-extradition-of-vladimir-plahotniuc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/the-general-prosecutors-office-requested-the-extradition-of-vladimir-plahotniuc\/","title":{"rendered":"The Office of the Prosecutor General requested the extradition of Vladimir Plahotniuc"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

The General Prosecutor, Alexandr Stoianoglo, requested the authorities of the United States of America to extradite the former democratic leader Vladimir Plahotniuc<\/strong>,\u00a0 as the Office of the Prosecutor General (OPG) announced in a new press release<\/a>\u00a0today, after it informed, yesterday, that Veaceslav Platon was released from prison after 4 years of detention.<\/p>\n

Both Platon and Plahotniuc have been previously declared as being connected to the criminal case of 1 billion stolen from the Moldovan banking system. <\/span><\/p>\n

The OPG representatives have already sent a set of documents referring to the extradition request to their American colleagues, while the Anti-corruption Prosecutor’s Office sent a request to perform several criminal prosecution actions, including those concerning Plahotniuc’s assets in the USA.<\/p>\n

“The extradition request is based on the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organised Crime, adopted in New York on November 15, 2000, and ratified by the Republic of Moldova on October 16, 2005, as well as on the basis of the principle of reciprocity. […] Both requests are submitted in order to manage the necessary evidence for confirming the accusations brought against Vladimir Plahotniuc, to identify and make unavailable his assets resulting from crimes, as well as to recover the damage caused by the fraud of the banking system,”<\/em><\/span> is mentioned in the OPG press release.<\/p>\n

The former leader of the Democratic Party of Moldova (DPM) had been declared internationally wanted on October 28, 2019. In March 2020, the US Embassy in Moldova confirmed that Plahotniuc was on the US territory. On May 22, 2020, an arrest warrant was issued in the name of Vladimir Plahotniuc, being accused of\u00a0scam, money laundering, as well as organising and leading criminal organisations<\/span>, for which the law provides up to 15 years in prison.<\/p>\n

Things didn’t move very fast, as Vladimir Plahotniuc was supposed to be held accountable even before he left Moldova in June 2019, after the democrats lost the government to a coalition formed by the ACUM bloc and the Party of Socialist of the Republic of Moldova (PSRM).<\/p>\n

Photo: Facebook| DPM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>The General Prosecutor, Alexandr Stoianoglo, requested the authorities of the United States of America to extradite the former democratic leader Vladimir Plahotniuc,\u00a0 as the Office of the Prosecutor General (OPG) announced in a new press release\u00a0today, after it informed, yesterday, that Veaceslav Platon was released from prison after 4 years of detention. Both Platon and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":448396,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[765,764,35,472,27,486,153],"class_list":["post-448394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-justice","category-society","tag-extradition","tag-general-prosecutors-office","tag-important","tag-judiciary","tag-moldova","tag-usa","tag-vladimir-plahotniuc"],"content_social_share":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

The General Prosecutor, Alexandr Stoianoglo, requested the authorities of the United States of America to extradite the former democratic leader Vladimir Plahotniuc<\/strong>,\u00a0 as the Office of the Prosecutor General (OPG) announced in a new press release<\/a>\u00a0today, after it informed, yesterday, that Veaceslav Platon was released from prison after 4 years of detention.<\/p>\n

Both Platon and Plahotniuc have been previously declared as being connected to the criminal case of 1 billion stolen from the Moldovan banking system. <\/span><\/p>\n

The OPG representatives have already sent a set of documents referring to the extradition request to their American colleagues, while the Anti-corruption Prosecutor’s Office sent a request to perform several criminal prosecution actions, including those concerning Plahotniuc’s assets in the USA.<\/p>\n

“The extradition request is based on the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organised Crime, adopted in New York on November 15, 2000, and ratified by the Republic of Moldova on October 16, 2005, as well as on the basis of the principle of reciprocity. […] Both requests are submitted in order to manage the necessary evidence for confirming the accusations brought against Vladimir Plahotniuc, to identify and make unavailable his assets resulting from crimes, as well as to recover the damage caused by the fraud of the banking system,”<\/em><\/span> is mentioned in the OPG press release.<\/p>\n

The former leader of the Democratic Party of Moldova (DPM) had been declared internationally wanted on October 28, 2019. In March 2020, the US Embassy in Moldova confirmed that Plahotniuc was on the US territory. On May 22, 2020, an arrest warrant was issued in the name of Vladimir Plahotniuc, being accused of\u00a0scam, money laundering, as well as organising and leading criminal organisations<\/span>, for which the law provides up to 15 years in prison.<\/p>\n

Things didn’t move very fast, as Vladimir Plahotniuc was supposed to be held accountable even before he left Moldova in June 2019, after the democrats lost the government to a coalition formed by the ACUM bloc and the Party of Socialist of the Republic of Moldova (PSRM).<\/p>\n

Photo: Facebook| DPM<\/p>\n

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