Veaceslav Platon could escape from prison. According to deschide.md, he allegedly paid colossal sums to the magistrates from the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ) and the Court of Appeal who examined his case so they could accepted his requests for retrial of the case in which he is accused of stealing hundreds of millions lei from the accounts of Moldasig and Alliance Insurance Group. 

Deschide writes that Platon obtained the revocation of the case in this January. According to some resources from the judicial system, he started to "resolve" the other case in which he is accused of embezzling funds from the banking system, including Banca de Economii (BEM).

Platon decided to sue after his first case reached the SCJ, deschide writes. It's said that on October 29, 2019, Platon "thanked" the judges of the Criminal College of the SCJ, "compensating" each member with 300 thousand euros. All in order to obtain a decision on sending the case "Moldasig" and "Alliance Insurance Group" to the Court of Appeal for retrial. Coincidentally or not, the case was revoked and sent for retrial.

According to Deschide.md, the magistrates from the SCJ who adopted such a decision were: Iurie Diaconu, Ion Guzun, Liliana Catan, Dumitru Mardari and Maria Ghervas.

On January 30, 2020, the judges of the Chisinau Court of Appeal acquitted him in the case in which he had been sentenced to 13 years in prison and sent the case to the Chisinau Court for re-examination. 

For such "favors", each of them allegedly received 200 thousand euros. Those who gave the verdict were: Ion Pleșca (former president of the court), Elena Cojocaru and Silvia Gârbu, notes deschide.md.

According to Deschide, if Platon had not have the status of accused in the BEM case, he would have been released from prison as a result of the decision. 

However, the sentence of 18 years in prison for "raider no. 1 in CIS" in the BEM fund embezzlement case remains in force for now. 

Although he has gone all ways of appeal in this case - from the first instance to the SCJ - he has appealed extraordinarily. Specifically, his case is to be examined by the Supreme Court's Criminal College formed by 8 magistrates: Vladimir Timofti, Nadejda Toma, Anatolii Țurcan, Elena Cobzac, Victor Boico, Iurii Diaconu, Liliana Catan and Ion Guzun, the last three being those who issued favorable decisions in his previous case, according to Deschide.

According to some judicial sources, quoted by Deschide, Platon has already started bribing this panel of magistrates. This time, the amounts would be much higher. He would propose 400 thousand euros for each of them for a favorable decision or, at least, to send the case to the Criminal College of the Court of Appeal for retrial. 

The same sources of Deschide.MD state that some of the 8 judges accepted the "offer" of the former MP, while others oppose, considering that such a decision is illegal and would completely discredit the judiciary in Moldova and the SCJ specially. 

Those who rejected were under pressure exerted by outsiders and their colleagues. 

Deschide also writes that the one who created the connections between Platon and the other judges would be none other than Liliana Catan. 

It is rumored that, this person also received additional one million euros "for organizing the process". Moreover, she was promised the position of the SCJ president which will be elected in the near future. 

The criminal college of the SCJ accepted the examination of the file. The magistrates will meet in session on May 7. 

Veaceslav Platon would hope for a final favorable decision in this case, which would release him from liability or, at least, to send the case back to the Criminal College of the Court of Appeal, where it would have "exits" and could get the much desired decision.

In such a scenario, he will be released from detention.

If Platon is found off the hook, the state will have to return his shares to two banks (Agroindbank and Moldoindcombank), which the magistrates confiscated with his sentence to 18 years in prison, Deschide said.

"In the event that the new shareholders of the banks manage to win their companies in court, Platon will receive at least 800 million lei compensated by the state". 

By "investing" 6 million euros for his release, Platon could gain the return from the Government another 40 million, say the sources close to the case.

Also, people in Platon's entourage claim that his stake would be actually the return of the banks, so he planed the state's lawsuit regarding the expropriation of the shares of "Agroindbank" and "Moldindcombank", which are worth 100 millions of euros each, "deschide writes.

One of these lawsuits is already under the International Court of Arbitration in Stockholm, according to Deschide.MD sources. In order to provide the services of a competent law firm in this field, the state should pay several million dollars which Moldova can't afford obviously. 

Therefore, in case of a gain in court, the amounts will be reimbursed from the state budget, including payments made by citizens.

It's not the first attempt of this kind he's made. In 2016, the International Court of Arbitration in Stockholm decided that the NBM "refrain" from recognizing the majority stake in Moldova-Agroindbank (MAIB), as a "concerted". The decision came after Platon filed a lawsuit against the National Bank of Moldova.

After two years, the same court ruled in favor of the Chisinau authorities, but also of the Central Bank.

On April 20, 2017, the Chisinau District Court, based in Buiucani, sentenced Veaceslav Platon to 18 years in prison for theft in particularly large proportions from the BEM.

On December 18 of the same year, the Chisinau Court of Appeal upheld the decision of the first instance. On November 14, 2018, the SCJ ordered the same measure. As a result of these decisions, the prosecutor's office confiscated 800 million lei from Platon, money that would have been stolen from the banking system.

Another file showed that the former MP aimed at stealing several hundred million lei from the accounts of the companies "Moldasig" and "Alliance Insurance Group".

On December 12, 2017, Platon was sentenced to 12 years in prison in this case, the decision being upheld by the Court of Appeal on December 14, 2018, which extended his sentence by another year.

Cumulatively, he was to be imprisoned for 25 years.