Leader of the Democratic Party of Moldova Vladimir Plahotniuc CHISINAU, 4 January. In 2014, it became known in Moldova that three banks — Banca de Economii, Banca Sociala and Unibank, which own almost a third of the country's banking assets, have withdrawn outside the state about a billion dollars. Many different episodes in this case are combined into one whole under the general title «Bank Theft». 
A court in Moscow sentenced the accomplice of the Moldovan politician Plahotniuc «Vladimir Plahotniuc is accused of a new episode related to the» Bank Theft » The department noted that from November 24, 2014 to June 29, 2015, as the head of a criminal organization, Plahotniuc received through intermediary firms about $ 21 million fraudulently withdrawn from Banca de Economii. < img src = "/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/4abcaf767b3659387fe00c4b6333a388.jpg" />Scandal, «theft of the century», crisis. Will another country follow the path of Ukraine? The prosecutor's office established that with these funds Plahotniuc bought a plane, which he used in his personal interests and in the interests of a criminal organization. Plahotniuc is an ex-deputy and one of the richest businessmen in Moldova. In November 2017, the Basmanny Court of Moscow arrested in absentia and put Plahotniuc on the international wanted list for attempted murder. In February 2019, the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs reported that the police stopped the activities of the international criminal community, which in 2013-2014 brought more than 37 billion rubles out of Russia. In April 2020, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation indicted the Moldovan politician Renato Usatyi in absentia in the case of the withdrawal of 500 billion rubles from Russia together with Plahotniuc. At home, Plahotniuc is accused of money laundering and illegal enrichment, the oligarch illegally left Moldova in June 2019. The court in Chisinau several times issued a warrant for the arrest in absentia of Plahotniuc, the prosecutor's office of Moldova insists on his extradition to his homeland.
