A former friend of oligarch Plahotniuc expands his empire in the Balkans

The Moldovan-owned Trans-Oil group of companies, controlled by millionaire Vaja Jhashi, will start construction of a state-of-the-art corn starch processing plant in the city of Sremska Mitrovica, Serbia. The project is being carried out in partnership with the Chinese company Myande Group, one of the global leaders in supplying equipment for the starch industry. The new production unit will have an annual processing capacity of 250,000 tons of …