"Iasi Newspaper" columnist Radu Popescu, was one of the people who thrived in Moldova during Vlad Filat's regime, writes bzi.ro. Radu Popescu started attacking those who have taken his place, after he has received a good deal of money for propaganda during the period when Filat was in charge.

Moreover, sources say that the columnist's name is mentioned in the invetsigation on money theft from state reserves.

"An individual who was in the anticorruption prosecutors' attention started giving morality lessons. Radu Popescu, a "Iasi Newspaper" columnist, atacks Vladimir Plahotniuc, one of the most influential politicians and businessmen in Moldova. Popescu long thrived in the neighboring country during Vlad Filat's regime, former premier who was targeted for corruption, and now has come to attack those that have taken his place.

By some appearances on television in Basarabia, where he attempts to throw discredit on Plahotniuc. Radu Popescu suggested that Vladimir Plahotniuc is ready to fraud the elections that will take place in October and that everything is already arranged. Popescu suggested that fraudulent presidential elections are prepared and that Plahotniuc has arranged everything, supplementing willed voter lists.

"We can safely say that our money (romanian) and the Europeans, oligarch Plahotniuc checked golden dream of every deeply corrupt politician, to have more voters than inhabitants in the country that has seized" , said Popescu to media in the neighboring country.

Ironically, Popescu's name appears in a huge investigation dealt with prosecutors in Basarabia.

Popescu was close to former Prime Minister Vlad Filat, currently under investigation by anticorruption prosecutors in the neighboring country. Former Prime Minister Vlad Filat was arrested in Parliament for stealing about a billion dollars in the banking system, an offense that came into sight of National Anti-Corruption Council.

Sources in the political environment in Moldova claim that Popescu would have benefited him a good deal of money for propaganda of Vlad Filat regime. The case came to the attention of NACC prosecutor, Adriana Betisor and Popescu left the country in fear. Moreover, he claims himself political consultant in Moldova and is afraid to return home. Filat was sentenced to nine years in prison in the first court, accused of passive corruption and peddling influence. The same political sources claim that investigators have their eye on Popescu and but he seeks desperately to get away", says the source.