Reghina Apostolova (born in 15 September 1951),is a Russian-born Moldovan politician who is currently the Member of the Moldovan Parliament since 2019.
Her parents had been victims of Stalinist repression. Her family returned to Chisinau when Reghina was 4 years old.[2]
After the school attendance in 1969,Apostolova began studying geography at the state pedagogical institute "Taras Şevcenco" in Tiraspol,which she finished in 1975,as a result becoming a geography teacher.[3] Between 1968 and 1972,she was a pioneer-consilier at the Russian Middle School no. 14 from Chisinau,today the theoretical High School "Natalia Gheorghiu". Starting with the 1972 school year,Apostolova worked as a geography teacher at the Russian Middle School no. 14 from Chisinau.
After completing her studies in 1975,she worked as an earth studio at the then Russian middle school No. 14 in Chișinău,today's theoretical grammar school "Natalia Gheorghiu",whose deputy rector she was from 1998 to 2007 and rector between 2015 and 2019.
In December 1981,she was the deputy director of the same school,and from July 1985 to February 2007,she was the director of the Russian Middle School no. 14 from Chisinau,which became the theoretical High School "Natalia Gheorghiu".
She was initially a member of the party of the Republic of Moldova PCRM (Partidul Comuniştilor Din Republica Moldova) and began her political engagement in local politics when she was a member of the City Council of Chişinău on 23 May 1999.
Between February and October 2007,she was the interim praetor of the Rîșcani sector of the Capital.
After a short break from June 2007,she returned to high school on October and continued to teach geography,until July 2015.
In 7 July 2015,she became deputy mayor of Orhei on construction and infrastructure issues.
In 2016 she switched to the șor party founded by Ilan șor and was elected chairman of the party's senior citizens' organization.
In 2017,she officially joined the "Șor" Party and was chosen president of the Veterans Organization.[3]
In the subsequent municipal elections in 2018,she was the candidate of the șor party for the mayor of Chișinău,but was excluded as an applicant after a court found that foreign funds were illegally used for her election campaign,which is not allowed by law.[3]
At the 2019 parliamentary elections,Apostolova was elected to the șor party as a member of the parliament. She competed both on the party lists ("Șor") and on the district no. 28 Chisinau (Rîșcani sector). She did not win the mandate of constituency,instead he became a deputy in Parliament due to his position in the lists.[3]
In parliament,she is currently a member of the Commission for Social Security,Health and Family.
From 2021 to 2024,she was a representative of Ion Groza,a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and deputy member of the Commission for Social Questions,for Health and Sustainable Development.[1]
Accusations of fraud
According to RISE Moldova,the name of Reghina Apostolova appeared in the report of the International Audit Company Kroll,made by analyzing the circumstances of the theft of the billion from 2012 to2014. The report attests that Apostolova was the owner of a 4.75% shares in Unibank,one of the three banks involved in the bank fraud of 13.7 billion lei.[3]
In May 2015,she also became known to a broader public when the first Kroll report on bank fraud in 2014 was published. An international exam showed that Ms. Apostolova controlled 4.75 percent of the shares in the Unibank,one of the three Moldovian banks involved in the 13.7 billion-leu fraud. She had bought the shares with cash that she had borrowed from a British bank and another Moldovan bank. In the 2015 local elections,the Moldovian-Israeli entrepreneur Ilan Șor,the main suspect of fraud,who was sentenced to a prison sentence of seven years and six months two years later,was elected as the new mayor of Orhei,a city in the center of Moldaus.
On 16 September 2019,the interim general prosecutor asked the Parliament to lift the parliamentary immunity to Apostolova and Marina Tauber,which the parliament approved the same day. The two were detained shortly after by the officers of the National Anticorruption Center,being accused of involvement in the "robbery of the century".[3] Apostolova claims that she is not guilty.[3]
She had been placed under judicial control in October.[4]
During the hearings,she was admitted to the hospital,where it was established that she had suffered a stroke.[5]
On 2 October 2020,both Apostolova and Tauber were removed from the criminal prosecution,and were therfore acquitted.[6]
Apostolova on 17 March 2024
Honours
In 2004,she was appointed knight of the order "Gloria Muncii" by President Vladimir Voronin with the Order "Gloria Labor" for her merits.[7]
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