Vladimir Andronachi's accounts blocked by the State Tax Service
The State Tax Service has blocked the accounts of former Democratic MP Vladimir Andronachi. This decision was published in the Official Gazette on Thursday, October 16.
Under this decision, Andronachi allegedly tried to alienate part of the share capital of S.R.L. "AC Full-Service", through an intermediary.
According to the document, the decision to freeze the funds is applied "following the investigations confirming that the transaction of alienation of the share capital of S.R.L. "AC Full-Service" constitutes an attempt to substitute the founder Ruslan Alass, a person associated with the subject of restrictions – Vladimir Andronachi, according to the Order of the Intelligence and Security Service, with an unassociated person – Veaceslav Neagu, but in relations related to the interests of the subject of restrictions according to the decision of the Interinstitutional Supervisory Council, Vladimir Andronachi, with the aim of circumventing international restrictive measures".
Moldpres writes that the decision was submitted to the Public Services Agency for execution. At the same time, it was submitted for information to the Intelligence and Security Service, the Interinstitutional Supervisory Council, the Service for the Prevention and Combating of Money Laundering and the targeted persons.
Andronachi, in preventive arrest
We recall that former Democratic MP Vladimir Andronachi was detained on September 2, and on September 5 he was placed in preventive arrest for 30 days.
He is targeted in a new criminal case and is accused of money laundering in particularly large proportions, a crime punishable by up to 10 years in prison and a fine.
The prosecutor in the case, Nicolae Busuioc, stated that the criminal investigation was initiated as early as 2021, a period in which Andronachi was working as an entrepreneur.
This year, however, new evidence was obtained that led to the relaunch of the investigation. Before the court, his lawyer, Vladimir Moșneaga, announced that the former MP does not plead guilty.
Vladimir Andronachi's name also appears in three other criminal cases: the "bank fraud" case, the "Metalferos" case, and the case regarding the purchase of passport forms. In all these cases, he is accused of causing millions of lei in damages to the state and of laundering money in favor of a criminal organization.
Former vice president of the Democratic Party and close to Vladimir Plahotniuc, Andronachi was a deputy in the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova between 2015 and 2021. In November 2022, he was detained in Ukraine and expelled to Chisinau after previously fleeing the country.
After a period of detention, he was placed under house arrest, and in August 2023 he was released on a personal guarantee of 22,000 lei, an amount paid by several guarantors, including a priest.
