{"id":2447,"date":"2020-01-27T09:34:41","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T07:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zdg.md\/eng\/?p=2447"},"modified":"2020-01-28T15:21:10","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T13:21:10","slug":"whats-the-connection-between-the-case-of-financing-from-abroad-of-the-socialist-party-and-the-bahamas-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zdg.md\/en\/whats-the-connection-between-the-case-of-financing-from-abroad-of-the-socialist-party-and-the-bahamas-operation\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s the Relation Between the Socialist Party Foreign Funding and the Bahamas Operation?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

At the end of 2019, the suspended head of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office, Viorel Morari, issued an order to investigate the Socialist Party\u2019s assets which were suspected of receiving foreign funding. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The investigation showed the connection between the possibility of Socialist Party receiving foreign financing and the criminal case of money laundering in very large proportions, where the Exclusive Media company, whose founder is the deputy of the Socialist Party Corneliu Furculi\u021b\u0103, is involved. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The anticorruption prosecutors requested the State Tax Service information about the donations received by the Socialist Party but also about several companies and persons affiliated with the Socialists. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

ZdG got hold of these documents and analyzed them to find more details about the Socialist Party financing from abroad.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue of Socialist Party receiving financing from abroad became a hot topic, when Publika, a TV channel owned by fugitive oligarch Vladimir Plahotniuc, broadcasted a video from the negotiations between Plahotniuc and President Igor Dodon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the video, the president affirms that monthly the Socialist Party receives around $1 million. In August 2019, prosecuting institutions refused to investigate the case, coming back to it in December 2019, when the Anticorruption Prosecutor\u2019s Office requested several photocopies of the documents with persons and companies who have financial ties with the Socialist Party. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ziarul de Gard\u0103 got hold of documents in which the Anticorruption Prosecutor\u2019s Office is asking the State Tax Service to present photocopies of all the documents held regarding several persons and companies that had financial relations with the Socialist Party (origin, payment of income taxes, income tax returns, etc.).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the same time, the anti-corruption prosecutors asked the State Tax Service to submit the control documents regarding the sources of financing of the Socialist Party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Following the investigations, the prosecutors found that in February 2016, over \u20ac1.4 million came to the Exclusive Media company\u2019s accounts, from Westerby Limited, an offshore company registered in the Bahamas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later, in March and April 2016, the director of the company, the deputy Petru Burduja and deputy Corneliu Furculi\u021b\u0103’s wife, who is the founder of Exclusive Media, withdrew from the company’s accounts over \u20ac1 million (20 million lei), invoking the restitution of the financial aid obtained from individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the same time, it was found that Exclusiv Media received loans from 11 affiliated persons, worth over 255,000 euros (5 million lei), including 100,000 dollars from the non-residential company Bulwer Development (represented by Iaroslav \u021aurcan). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u021aurcan appears as president of the Din Suflet Foundation, founded and administered by Galina Dodon, the president’s wife, who is also on the prosecutor\u2019s list. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u021aurcan’s name also appears in All the (Moldovan) President\u2019s Men, ZdG wrote in that investigation that \u021aurcan is from Dub\u0103sari, in the Transnistrian breakaway region, holds a Russian passport from 2013, and on social networks and in real life. He is a supporter of the Socialist Party and the presidential family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Iaroslav \u021aurcan<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n