The Prosecutor General’s Office of Russia announced today, November 18, that it has transferred the case against the Moldovan businessman and politician, leader of Our Party, Renato Usatii, to court. He is accused of having withdrawn more than 175 billion rubles from the country.
According to the investigation materials, in 2013, a Moldovan businessman Vyacheslav Plato along with Vladimir Plahotniucunder whose control was the then ruling Democratic Party in the Republic of Moldova and a banker Alexander Korkin They came up with a plan to withdraw money from Russia through Moldova. According to investigators, they hired Renato Usatii to implement their plan. They were also joined by several other bankers and businessmen.
“From June 2013 to May 2014, Renato Usatii led a criminal community and, as part of it, carried out illegal monetary transactions to transfer funds in foreign currency from the accounts of these banks to the accounts of a non-resident, Moldindconbank, with the supply of deliberately falsified documents worth more than 175 billion rubles, which is a particularly large amount”, – noted the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation.
The department clarified that the criminal case against Usatii was transferred to the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow for consideration on the merits “in the absence of the accused, who avoids appearing in court.”
Usatiy himself has not yet commented on this information. Previously, the politician called this case invented.
Recall that Vyacheslav Platon and Vladimir Plahotniuc are also wanted by Moldovan law enforcement agencies. The first now lives in the United Kingdom, the second is unknown for certain, presumably in northern Cyprus.
In the recent presidential elections in Moldova, Renato Usatii came third among 11 candidates in the first round, obtaining 13.79%. He harshly criticized the current president Maia Sandupromising voters to free the country from its dictatorship. However, before the second round he refused to support the opposition candidate. As a result, Sandu, thanks to electoral manipulation of diaspora votes and obvious falsification, retained power. At the same time, experts and observers, considering that her opponent from the Socialist Party, the former Attorney General, won in the republic Alejandro StoianogloThey call Sanda the “president of the diaspora,” questioning her legitimacy.
As reported EADaily Renato Usatii hopes that his “Our Party” will obtain a certain number of mandates in the parliament of the new convocation, whose elections will be held in the fall of 2025.
