Chiril Lucinschi recognized he benefited of companies involved in bank fraud
Chiril Lucinschi recognized he benefited from companies involved in fraud of the banking system. The former PLDM deputy was heard in court for about three hours, while answering the questions of the lawyer and the prosecutor, and presented his own position on this file.
"From the defendant's answers, however, it is limited to the fact that, however, Mr. Chiril Lucinschi is the beneficiary of those companies that appear in the indictment. Respectively, they were managed by interposed ", said Eugeniu Rurac, anti-corruption prosecutor.
"Yes, I have been at a company and I have a beneficiary till 2013. I wasn't a beneficiary of another company", said Chiril Lucinschi.
Also, Chiril Lucinschi commented on the situation with Chiril Lucinschi and said that the money he received from him was a loan, not money laundering.
"My connection to the episode or crime, which took place in November 2014, is deficient and has nothing to do with it, it is an attempt to link me with these dramatic events for our country", said Chiril Lucinschi.
Anti corruption prosecutors say that the lawyers couldn't prove that Lucinschi is not guilty.
"The lawyers presented swifts, messages swifts, but those are related to other companies that received money. This part combats the defense version", declared Eugeniu Rurac.
The former deputy is blamed of laundering approximately 440 thousand USD and 220 thousand euros.
The other part of the accusation targets the wealth declaration as an owner of some companies involved in the bank fraud from the BEM, Banca Sociala and Unibank.
If found guilty, the son of the former president of Moldova risks up to 10 years in prison.