Vladimir Plahotniuc

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Vladimir Plahotniuc (2018)

Vladimir Plahotniuc (born January 1, 1966 in Pituşca , Călăraşi Rajon , Moldovan SSR ) is a Moldovan oligarch and politician.

In 2016 he was considered the richest man in the country and had great influence on Moldovan politics and economy.

After losing the parliamentary elections in February 2019 and a subsequent change of power in Moldova, he left the country and went into hiding. Despite imposed visa and travel restrictions, he is currently in the USA.

Vladimir Plahotniuc's regime was considered deeply criminal . Not only systematic legislation , election fraud and arbitrariness by the authorities were the order of the day, he and his clique also practiced tax fraud , smuggling , money laundering , extortion and, by means of ordered court decisions, robbery takeovers of companies. There were also kidnappings , poisoning of opposition politicians, torture in prisons and unexplained deaths of politicians and high officials under his aegis .

Life

Plahotniuc was born into a large family of teachers in Pituşca, grew up in Grozeşti in the Nisporeni district and graduated from high school there in 1983. He then took up an engineering degree at the Technical University of Moldova ( Romanian Universitatea Tehnică a Moldovei ) in Chișinău , from which he graduated in 1991 with a Bachelor of Technology in the Food Industry. At the same university in 2002 he was Master of Business Administration (Management industry) and in 2006 he was at the University of European Studies of Moldova Masters in civil law.

Professional background

In Chișinău he headed an organization for the prevention and rehabilitation of neglected young people between 1991 and 1993. From 1995 to 1998 he participated in the establishment of the Moldovan-American financial group Angels, of which he was manager until 2001. Due to his proximity to politics in the oil and banking sector, he made a considerable fortune after the collapse of the Soviet Union . From 2001 he worked for the Moldovan subsidiary of the Romanian oil company Petrom , Petrom Moldova, as commercial director. Under his leadership as General Director, he developed the company into the leading Moldovan company for trade and import by 2010. He was also President of Victoriabank , a leading bank in Moldova, between 2006 and January 2011 . After entering politics in 2010, although he officially sold his possessions, including a media complex, he still exercises control over them through complicated offshore constructs.

Plahotniuc had assets of around $ 2 billion to $ 2.5 billion in 2016, which was roughly a third of Moldova's GDP .

Political activity

Ascent

In the parliamentary elections in the Republic of Moldova in 2010 , he was elected to the Moldovan Parliament in second place on the list of the Democratic Party of Moldova (PDM) . On the same list of the party, he, meanwhile one of the vice-presidents of parliament, was re-elected in the 2014 general election. After the Moldovan parliament had expressed its distrust of Prime Minister Valeriu Streleț on October 29, 2015, the country plunged into a constitutional crisis in January 2016 in the search for a successor to Streleț, as Vladimir Plahotniuc, as the candidate proposed by the PDM, was plunged by President Nicolae Timofti was rejected for "reasons of integrity". At the 8th PDM Congress on December 10, 2016, Plahotniuc was unanimously elected party chairman.

In June 2012, Vladimir Plahotniuc became the first vice president of the Democratic Party.

On February 15, 2013, the parliamentary groups of the PKRM and the PLDM voted in a vote of no confidence in Vladimir Plahotniuc , without a decision by the parliamentary committee “Legal Committee Appointments and Immunity” of the Parliament of Moldova . As a result of this decision, which was supported by the votes of 73 of the 101 MPs, the post of first Vice-President of the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova was abolished. For his part, Vlad Plahotniuc urged Prime Minister Vlad Filat to follow his example. At the end of October 2013, he renounced his parliamentary mandate. The vote of no confidence was the reason why in January 2016 the President of the Republic of Moldova, Nicolae Timofti , rejected the candidacy of Vlad Plahotniuc for Prime Minister, because "Mr. Vladimir Plahotniuc is not qualified for the position of Prime Minister". He also stated that the qualification for the post provided that "the candidate's integrity should not raise such questions."

In December 2014 Vladimir Plahotniuc was again a member of the Moldovan Parliament and in July 2015 he resigned from his mandate "to concentrate on the reorganization of the party".

On October 15, 2015, on the day that Vlad Filat's parliamentary immunity was lifted and his arrest, Vlad Plahotniuc announced that he had resigned as Vice-President of the Democratic Party of Moldova and as a member of that party pending the clarification of the Banca de Economii investigation a Moldova resign "so that no allegations are made that he would influence the investigation and so that the reputation of the Democratic Party from Moldova is not damaged".

In early May 2016, Vlad Plahotniuc, in the newly created position of Executive Coordinator of the Government Coalition Council, paid an official visit to Washington.

At the 8th Congress of the Democratic Party of Moldova on December 24, 2016, Vlad Plahotniuc was elected chairman of the Democratic Party of Moldova.

In March 2017 Vladimir Plahotniuc became Vice President of the Socialist International within the framework of the XXV. Congress of this organization, which will take place on 2-4. March in Cartagena, Colombia.

On March 30, 2017, the majority of the MEPs of the Moldovan Parliament, led by the Democrats, voted on the draft law to amend the Basic Law of the Republic of Moldova with regard to the lifting of parliamentary immunity, with the Socialist and Communist MEPs criticizing this initiative.

In July 2017, at the Congress of the Socialist International, Vlad Plahotniuc requested the withdrawal of the Russian army from the eastern part of the Republic of Moldova.

Before the parliamentary elections in February 2019 , Russia filed a lawsuit for money laundering - Plahotniuc is considered EU- friendly and warned against Russia.

Loss of power in Moldova

His party lost votes in the parliamentary elections in February 2019 and came in second. After no party wanted to form a coalition with Plahotniuc's party, Maia Sandu of the Action and Solidarity party was defeated by the Parliament of Moldova on June 8, 2019 , against the will of the Constitutional Court and against the resistance of Plahotniuc, who lacks the legitimacy of parliament and the government wanted to recognize, elected as the new head of government.

After the new head of government Maia Sandu Plahotniuc accused him of wanting to take power and threatened him with legal consequences, he left Moldova on June 15, 2019.

On June 24, 2019, Plahotniuc resigned as chairman of the Democratic Party of Moldova. According to a press release by the Moldovan Interior Minister Andrei Nastase on August 30, 2019, Plahotniuc, who is accused of founding a criminal organization, extortion, fraud and money laundering , is to be placed on the international wanted list.

Attitude to the intervention of Russia in the politics of the Republic of Moldova

Plahotniuc stated several times that he intended to cancel Russia's intervention in the Republic of Moldova, given that Russia controls several economic sectors in Moldova: the media, banking sector, NGOs, insurance companies and political organizations. In order to minimize Russia's influence in the region, the party leader, together with the ruling coalition, passed several anti-propaganda laws and carried out financial reforms and NGO restructuring according to EU directives.

In response to the laws passed aimed at reducing Russia's influence in Moldova, the Russian authorities initiated criminal proceedings against some Moldovan authorities, including Plahotniuc, which further worsened diplomatic relations between the countries. According to the Moldovan authorities, these actions are a consequence of the investigation in the so-called “Russian Laundromat” dossier. Plahotniuc stated that the actions of the Russian Federation "against my colleagues and myself constitute acts of deliberate blackmail and political harassment ... abusive and illegal behavior that will not interfere with our commitment to the democratic and pro-European development of the Republic of Moldova".

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation accused Vladimir Plahotniuc of money laundering on February 22, 2019. According to Plahotniuc's own political party, the Democratic Party, this was abusive interference by the Russian side in the elections in the Republic of Moldova. And this so-called case was opened by Russians against the chairman of the DP just two days before the parliamentary elections in Moldova, which is clearly an abuse on the part of the Russian Federation with which they are trying to influence the election result in Moldova.

On June 26, 2019, two days after Vladimir Plahotniuc stepped down as PDM chairman, he was accused in the Russian Federation of having the drug network trafficked in particularly large quantities in North Africa via the European Union in the CIS, including the Russian Federation . The former PD leader wrote that these are some of the "threats" addressed to him and his family: "The Russian Federation has several criminal cases against me. I am unaware of their exact count. They would either appear at election times or when the Republic of Moldova, ruled by the Democratic Party, makes decisions that were not to Moscow's taste. All these cases are fantasies and attempts to include my name in cases that have absolutely nothing to do with me, especially for political reasons Interpol has rejected dozens of Russia's attempts to abusively restrict my freedom of movement. "

shops

Vladimir Plahotniuc is a businessman who has managed oil, finance, banking, catering, media and real estate companies. In August 2010, the Ukrainian business newspaper Delo estimated Vlad Plahotniuc's net worth at US $ 300 million. The money is said to come from his work at Viktoriabank and Petrom Moldova, where he was Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors and later General Director.

Plahotniuc was President of Viktoriabank, one of the largest banks in the Republic of Moldova, until January 2011. Between 2004 and 2007, Plahotniuc was the unofficial business partner of the brothers Viorel and Victor Țopa, with whom he jointly gained control of Viktoriabank and Prime TV. In September 2010, Victor and Viorel Țopa filed a brief to a number of national and international institutions accusing Vladimir Plahotniuc of coordinating "locust attacks" in July - August 2011 on four banks and the ASITO insurance company. Former Viktoriabank president Victor Ţurcan later stated in an interview that the real crooks in the Viktoriabank case were the brothers Victor and Viorel Ţopa, and that they manipulate public opinion through false statements. Later criminal proceedings were initiated against each of the Brüderopa brothers, after which they fled to Germany. They then accused Vlad Plahotniuc of political persecution.

Vladimir Plahotniuc is the sole owner of the company "Prime Management SRL", which was founded in September 2010 and which has generated revenues of 34 million lei (approx. 7.8 million euros) since 2015.

Vladimir Plahotniuc founded two other companies: General Media Group Corp and Radio Media Group Inc., which include four television channels: Publika TV, Prime TV, Canal 2 and Canal 3, and 3 radio stations: Publika FM, Muz FM and Maestro FM. Later two television networks, Canal 2 and Canal 3, which were owned by General Media Group Corp, became the property of Telestar Media. The President of the Democratic Party officially owns two television stations - Prime and Publika TV, and two radio stations - Muz FM and Publika FM.

In 2010 Vladimir Plahotniuc founded the “Vlad Plahotniucs Foundation Edelweiss”, which contributes to the development of society through the implementation of social, cultural and educational projects in the Republic of Moldova. In 2016 the foundation was officially renamed " Vlad Plahotniucs Foundation" EDELWEISS " ".

Attempted murder

On April 7, 2017, Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov reported on the prevention of the alleged murder of Vladimir Plakhotnyuk as a result of a joint international law enforcement operation between Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova. Investigators found that the perpetrators were connected to the special forces of the Russian Federation. On April 8, according to press statements by the Ukrainian Border Police, the attempted murder was coordinated by people from the Russian Information Service. On the same day, a joint press release by the Moldovan police and prosecutor confirmed that the murder had been ordered by two Moldovan citizens. Some political analysts at opposition broadcaster Jurnal TV said these events were part of a hybrid war . On April 27, 2017, the Moldovan public prosecutors stated during a press conference that Grigore Caramalac (also Karamalak; alias "Bulgaru") was one of the people who had ordered the murder of Vlad Plahotniuc. The second suspect is a prisoner from a Moldovan prison. Six defendants of the attempted murder of Vladimir Plahotniuc were convicted by the court.

criticism

Plahotniuc, according to Igor Munteanu, head of the think tank Die Zukunft in Chisinau, uses his position “to secure influence in the state and to tap resources in order to build an empire.” Opposition politician Andrei Năstase described the PDM in February 2019 as “[ e] a criminal group that rules the country and calls itself the Democratic Party ”and“ in all respects the interests of its chairman, the oligarch Vladimir Plahotniuc ”. According to his statement, which was also shared by other experts on Moldovan domestic politics, Moldova had meanwhile become a captured state , which Plahotniuc made his company and which, together with his entourage, in the field of politics, the Controlled the energy sector, the economy, the judiciary and the media.

Private life

Vlad Plahotniuc is married and has two sons.

Dual identity

In early 2011, shortly after his election to parliament, the Adevărul newspaper discovered that Plahotniuc also had Romanian citizenship under the name of Vlad Ulinici. He explained this fact by saying that he wanted to protect his children so that they would not be discriminated against while studying in Romania. He later announced that he had requested that the name be changed to Plahotniuc in the Romanian files. He could be prosecuted for using false personal information three years after the Adevărul Moldova newspaper uncovered Ulinici / Plahotniuc's dual identity. The prosecutor dropped the case because this crime, which is prosecuted in Romania, is not foreseen by the criminal law of the Republic of Moldova.

Awards

On August 29, 2007, Vlad Plahotniuc was awarded the order “Gloria Muncii” by the President of the Republic of Moldova Vladimir Voronin for “the contribution to the reconstruction of the Curchi Monastery and special merits in the preservation and dissemination of the historical and cultural heritage”.

On July 24, 2014, President Nicolae Timofti awarded him the Order of the Republic “for making significant contributions to the realization of the most important foreign policy objective of the Republic of Moldova - association and economic integration into the European Union ”.

Web links

Commons : Vlad Plahotniuc  - collection of images

Individual evidence

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