CHISINAU, October 1 – Novosti. Ilan Shor, the leader of the Shor Party, an opposition party in Moldova, has published documents that, according to him, testify to the hidden millions in income of the country’s Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Spinu.
Earlier, the politician announced on social networks that he had filed a complaint against Spina with the Prosecutor General’s Office, accusing him of receiving hidden income. The Deputy Prime Minister himself denies these accusations, and the head of the republic, Maia Sandu , said in the media that Spinu earned his money legally in business even before he came to the government.
On Saturday, Shor announced that he had published on his pages an extract from a bank account in Hong Kong in the name of the Moldovan Deputy Prime Minister. The document indicates that the account of the company, which Shor claims is owned by Spin, had $13.8 million as of September 1, 2022, and then on September 19 another $2 million was transferred to the OCBC bank Wing Hang.
“As promised, I am presenting evidence regarding Spinu. This is a bank statement from the account of one of his companies. Next week will be hot. More revelations about corrupt officials in the president’s entourage will follow. I have advice for the Sandu-captured prosecutor’s office: instead of counting sandwiches, it would be better if they counted the money to Spin, which he keeps for Maya,” Shor wrote on social networks.
The leader of the “Shor” party is outside of Moldova, as he is awaiting imprisonment in his homeland. With the coming to power of the Action and Solidarity party, the politician was deprived of parliamentary immunity due to suspicions of money laundering and fraud on an especially large scale.
The Shor party is holding protests in the center of Chisinau for the second week . The demonstrators are outraged by the unprecedented increase in prices for gas, other energy resources and food, as well as high inflation and falling living standards. The protesters accuse the authorities of failing to cope with the crisis, point to a record inflation over the past 20 years, which in mid-summer amounted to 33.5% on an annualized basis. The country’s leadership is criticized for its unwillingness to negotiate better gas prices with Russia , as well as for political pressure on opposition representatives.
