Igor Dodon. Archival photoMOSCOW, July 15Former Moldovan President Igor Dodon, accused in his homeland of passive corruption, called the case against himself a political revenge on the part of the authorities, he said that he would continue the fight and withstand all attacks.» This is political revenge… They have no chance of achieving anything in these cases… I realize that this will continue for the next few months… But I will withstand this blow and will fight, it's a matter of honor,» he said in an interview with Rossiya 24. On May 24, employees of the anti-corruption prosecutor's office of Moldova detained Dodon, whom the authorities suspect of passive corruption, illegal enrichment, financing the party through a criminal organization and betrayal of the motherland. Searches and investigative measures were carried out in the house of the former leader. The next day, he was formally charged, since then Dodon has been under house arrest. On Thursday, June 16, the prosecutor's office filed charges of complicity in illegal enrichment to the wife of the ex-president, Galina Dodon. On July 15, the ex-president's mother was invited to the prosecutor's office, who was supposed to be charged with the same charges as his wife, but the hearing was postponed due to his state of health.
Dodon took the current government of Moldova a few months
