{"id":179272,"date":"2019-10-18T21:08:38","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T18:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=179272"},"modified":"2023-08-27T11:50:09","modified_gmt":"2023-08-27T08:50:09","slug":"moldovas-political-heritage-seem-to-be-sunk-in-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2019\/10\/18\/moldovas-political-heritage-seem-to-be-sunk-in-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Moldova\u2019s political heritage seem to be sunk in crime"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1566\" height=\"881\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/190820-nemstova-moldova-tease_dh5ikf.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-179273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/190820-nemstova-moldova-tease_dh5ikf.jpg 1566w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/190820-nemstova-moldova-tease_dh5ikf-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/190820-nemstova-moldova-tease_dh5ikf-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/190820-nemstova-moldova-tease_dh5ikf-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/190820-nemstova-moldova-tease_dh5ikf-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1566px) 100vw, 1566px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The latest events in the Moldova\u2019s politics have\ndrawn attention of the international community not only because of their rapid\npace and uncertainty, but also due to the ongoing and ever-increasing\npenetration of crime in the Moldova\u2019s political system that has become the\nphenomenon for the European country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The criminal nature of the Vlad Plahotniuc\u2019s regime is beyond any doubt. However, the unlawful way of governing the country, which was formed when the so-called pro-European forces came to power in 2009, cannot be broken overnight. It was created gradually, with a whole layer of people thirsting for power and money and penetrating in all spheres of Moldova\u2019s economy, finance, politics, public administration. Moldova\u2019s oligarch Vlad Plahotniuc has been on top of this hierarchy system since 2016. In February 2019, after the dramatic change of power, Maia Sandu, the leader of ACUM, became the prime minister promising to clean up \u00abthe muck\u00bb while Plahotniuc fled the country and left to the USA. So did his ally &#8211;\u00a0Ilan Shor\u00a0\u2013 the politician accused of playing a key role in the so-called \u201cgrand theft\u201d of a billion US dollars from the banking system.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, there appeared a new political figure\non the Moldova\u2019s political stage \u2013 Renato Usatii. Known for his criminal\nbusiness in Russia&nbsp;he was engaged in\nthe Moldova\u2019s politics and initially had good relations with Vlad Plahotniuc.\nThey were believed to be involved in the creation of one of the largest\nmoney-laundering channels in the country when Plahotniuc was based in Moldova\nand Usatii resided in Russsia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest events in the Moldova\u2019s politics have drawn attention of the international community not only because of their rapid pace and uncertainty, but also due to the ongoing and ever-increasing penetration of crime in the Moldova\u2019s political system that has become the phenomenon for the European country. The criminal nature of the Vlad Plahotniuc\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4095,"featured_media":179273,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[844,10807],"tags":[10216,10219,10232],"class_list":["post-179272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-olga-malik","tag-moldova","tag-plahotniuc","tag-renato-uatii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4095"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}