Chisinau’s European trajectory is being undermined by Russia due to attempts at internal destabilization against the background of the economic crisis, but this is not a secret that Zelensky should have announced: everything happened in front of our eyes throughout 2022, with manipulations and paid demonstrators. street.

They seriously undermined the government of Havrilica and led, among other reasons, to the need for change announced yesterday in Chisinau. Three fugitive oligarchs, each in a complicated relationship with each other and more or less close to Russian services, are at the forefront of sabotage and illegal political funding from abroad. All of them are wanted by the Moldovan justice system, but they have left behind ax tails in this deeply distorted and corrupt justice system, which currently represents the biggest vulnerability in the country’s security.

1. Vlad Plahotniuk, apparently in the Emirates (or Northern Cyprus), a man who played in all possible ends in his career (Moscow-Tiraspol-Bucharest, etc.), promoted by the Iliescu regime in the early 2000s from the level of the petty Bessarabian underworld with Kalashnikov, who took women to the product, to a businessman associated with our state company Petrom (before privatization), who has, among other things, Romanian citizenship (under a fictitious name), so probably also the protection of some circles from us. His PDM party cooperated best with the PSD when he authoritatively ruled Moldova through blackmail and bribery, according to the model of “mass corruption under the guise of pro-European rhetoric”, an attractive model because it does not require specific geopolitical options: we can be with everything the world, including Europe and the Americans, while the country remains in the gray zone and we launder money together. But not only with PSD. Although Plahotniuk has almost no schooling, he is a skillful and Machiavellian leader: he financed the establishment of television stations, parties and movements of all directions, both left and right, including unionists, in order to confuse the political spectrum and have a lot of room for maneuver; he cultivated relations in Bucharest or Washington in various circles, paying advisers and / or journalists who still hold positions in Romanian public institutions. The party recently changed its name, and although its electoral chances are nil, it is still frequently visited by PSD leaders: last week, Minister Budai (photo).

2. Ilan Shor, the former mayor of Orhei, now a refugee in Israel who holds multiple citizenships (like two other fugitive oligarchs), is the man who took over the leadership of pro-Kremlin operations in Moldova in 2022. He is now the most active external financier (at the expense of Russian money) of political destabilization, as the independent press from Chisinau has amply confirmed, thus using a non-military strategy to overthrow the regime led by General Besyeda (section 5 of the FSB, espionage and active activities). measures in the former union republics, in particular in Moldova and Ukraine). He leads a party that ranks third in the polls. State attempts to recognize this foreign-funded party as illegal are currently being blocked.

3. Vyacheslav Platonbased in London, is the underworld financier at the center of a major Russian money laundering/theft operation carried out with the help of Moldovan (and Latvian) banks and justice a decade ago, estimated at €22 billion: Laundry. It is obvious that this could only be done if Platon was a servant of powerful Russian groups who wanted to steal money from their own state, which automatically implies the cover of the FSB. His relationship with the other two oligarchs fluctuated in different periods: from comradeship in theft to rivalry, betrayal and mutual backbiting, especially regarding the laundry. At the moment, this is fueling some compromising press and possibly political initiatives to complicate the political spectrum on the right. According to the custom of fraudsters from the post-Soviet space, he has different citizenships, at different stages of acceptance/rejection, it seems, including Ukrainian.

The mayor of Chisinau is added to them Yv (Ion / Ivan) Cheban, raised and promoted in the Voronin Communist Party, elected mayor in 2019, helped the campaign with money from Russia and, as the press showed, undercover FSB agent consultants. He is currently the successor whom Moscow appointed as the future leader of Moldova’s pro-Russian politics after former President Ihor Dodon was an electoral and organizational failure. For this, the strategy was slightly refined, following Plahotniuc’s old strategy: he refused to attack the EU or the Romanian language with a bayonet, as he did before; now he proclaims himself pro-European but in practice sabotages the application of European policies by radicalizing a nostalgic electorate with populist messages. In addition, he is a reliable partner of the real estate mafia in Chisinau, which launders money by post-Soviet standards. Ceban is also a favorite partner of the PSD in Moldova, personally Marcela Čolaku, who regularly organizes tours in Romania. Different city halls in Bucharest, Buzău or around Ardeal (PSD and PNL) allocate money from the budget for urban renewal projects in Chişinău, which Yves Ceban politically confiscates to an individual: there are no billboards or announcements of funding for a park, street, etc. from Romania Read the full article and comment on it on Contributors.ro