US EditionFugitive oligarch Plahotniuc extradited to Moldova
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Corruption scandal: The theft cost Moldova's three national banks nearly $1 billion in 2014, about 15 percent of their…
The runaway Oligar Vladimir Plahotnic was excommunicated in Chišinau after six years of hiding from Moldovan justice in at least 21 states under different identities.
Vladimir Plahotniuc has been on the run since 2019.
Pro-Russian oligarch Vladimir Plahotniuc was brought to Chisinau in handcuffs, six years after fleeing Moldova and three days before crucial parliamentary elections for the country's future. The former deputy speaker of parliament has four arrest warrants against him and is accused of being behind the theft of the century - the disappearance of a billion dollars from the country's banking system in 2014.
Former Democratic Party leader Vladimir Plahatniuc left Moldova in the summer of 2019, when the government changed in Chisinau. He lived for a while in the United States, then in Turkey, and then, according to unofficial information, in Northern Cyprus.
A Moldovan oligarch and former high-ranking politician have been extradited from Greece, accused of involvement in a $1 billion embezzlement. Vladimir Plahotniuc, 59, was transported by plane from Athens to Chisinau on Thursday morning and then taken to a detention center in the Moldovan capital, a local official said. Several protracted criminal proceedings are underway against the large entrepreneur in Moldova, but he has repeatedly denied the…
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