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Vlad Filat risks seven years in prison for money laundering in particularly large proportions

Former Prime Minister Vlad Filat could end up behind bars again, this time for money laundering in particularly large proportions. Today, during the debates in the file, the prosecutors requested for Filat a prison sentence for a term of 7 years, but also the collection for the benefit of the state of an amount of 12.8 million lei.

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Filat's lawyers did not agree with the arguments of the accusers, noting that their client does not plead guilty. For his part, the former prime minister claims that he is waiting for a legal decision.

We remind you that the file in which Vlad Filat is accused of money laundering in particularly large proportions was sent to court in 2018, and the first hearing took place a year later. The former prime minister is accused of having concluded a contract of assistance in the electoral campaign for PLDM, of which he was in charge, for the November 2014 parliamentary elections, with a consulting company in Washington, USA, in the summer of 2013. For the contracted services, he would have paid the non-resident company a total amount of 12.8 million lei. The transfers were made periodically from the accounts of the companies managed by an intermediary, in which financial means obtained fraudulently from the Banca de Economii were deposited.

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