OREANDA-NEWS. The former chairman of the Democratic Party, which ruled in Moldova, and one of the richest businessmen in the country, Vladimir Plakhotnyuk, responded to the extramigration charges brought against him by the investigative department of the Russian Interior Ministry. Russian authorities on the eve of the accused policy of guiding the criminal community and participation in it, as well as drug smuggling and marketing of banned substances on a large scale.

In the Russian Federation, recalled to this Plakhotnyuk, several criminal cases were initiated against him, and the entrepreneur learned about all of them from the media. About this businessman wrote on his official Facebook page. “The accusations appear either during the elections or when the Republic of Moldova, governed by the Democratic Party, makes decisions that Moscow does not like”, believes Plakhotnyuk.

The materials of all these industries, in his opinion, are "fantasies and attempts to use his name in matters that are absolutely not connected with him". The aim of all these actions, the politician is convinced, is an attempt to intimidate him.

The businessman calls Bloomberg the richest man in Moldova, the agency does not specify the size of his fortune. Plahotniuc was the chairman of the Democratic Party of Moldova in the period from 2016 to 2019. He resigned on the background of the political crisis that broke out in Moldova, which began after the parliamentary elections in the country in February. Following how the Socialist Party, led by Moldavian President Igor Dodon, and the pro-European bloc of ACUM, reached an agreement on the creation of a parliamentary coalition and formed a new government created by democrats government announced its resignation. Later it became known that Plakhotnyuk had left Moldova.