Details from Anti-Corruption prosecutors on the court hearing in which controversial businessman Veaceslav Platon is charged with bank card manufacturing and money laundering
The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (AP) announces that a new court hearing was held on Monday, February 27, in the criminal case against controversial businessman Veaceslav Platon, at which the defendant’s defense did not appear. Thus, the prosecutor requested the imposition of a fine on them, and the court decided to impose a judicial fine of 2000 lei each.
Earlier, due to the repeated absence of the defenders from the court hearings, the state prosecutor, in order to avoid delaying the examination of the case, requested the court to appoint a defence counsel ex officio, according to the AP.
“The court admitted the request and asked for the appointment of an ex officio defender, but by a decision dated 23 December 2022, the National Council for State Guaranteed Legal Aid refused the court’s request. In the circumstances mentioned, by a decision of 27 February 2023, the court ordered the National Council for State Guaranteed Legal Aid to provide the defendant Veaceslav Platon with state guaranteed assistance.
The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office qualifies the actions of the defense party as an attempt to intentionally delay the examination of the case and insists on the use in good faith by the defense party of the procedural weapons granted by the law,” an PA statement said.
Platon is charged in the case with bank card manufacture and money laundering.
In the “Laundromat” case, on 2 August 2021, prosecutors applied for an arrest warrant with a wanted notice for detention in the name of Veaceslav Platon after he left Moldova.
On 14 June 2021, controversial businessman Veaceslav Platon, sentenced in 2017 to 18 years in prison for allegedly obtaining, through illegal schemes, about 1 billion lei from the Banca de Economii of Moldova (BEM), then released and retried, was acquitted in the bank fraud case.
The fraud scheme, known generically as the “Laundromat”, which is alleged to be the biggest money laundering operation in history, targets dozens of people in the political, justice and financial-banking sectors in Moldova.
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