Veaceslav Platon | |
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 Platon in 2021 | |
| Member of the Moldovan Parliament | |
| In office 22 April 2009 –24 December 2010 | |
| Parliamentary group | Our Moldova Alliance |
| Member of the Chișinău Municipal Council | |
| In office 23 May 1999 –25 May 2003 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 24 January 1973 Căușeni,Moldavian SSR,Soviet Union [1] |
| Political party | Alliance Our Moldova |
| Other political affiliations | Alliance for European Integration (2009–2013) |
| Spouse | Evgenia Tulchevskaya |
| Children | 5 |
| Profession | Lawyer [2] [3] |
Veaceslav Platon (born 24 January 1973) is a Moldovan businessman [4] and former member of the Parliament of Moldova [5] from 2009 [6] to 2010. [7] He also holds Russian citizenship. [8]
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Platon is one of the wealthiest people in Moldova, [9] with businesses in the field of sugar and banking in Moldova,and atomic energy in Ukraine. In 1994,Platon became vice-president of the administrative board of the Moldovan private bank Moldindconbank,and later became vice-president of the board of another Moldovan bank,Investprivatbank. In 1998,he was elected as a member of the Municipal Council of Chișinău on the lists of the electoral bloc of agrarians. [8]
He was accused of economic crimes, [10] [9] [11] [12] [13] and nicknamed "raider No. 1 in the CIS". [14] [15] [16] [17]
Platon is the alleged architect of the Russian Laundromat,a scheme to move $20–80 billion out of Russia from 2010 to 2014 through a network of global banks,many of them in Moldova and Latvia. [18]
On 20 April 2017,Platon was sentenced to 18 years in prison. [19] [20] However,then he was released,re-tried,and on 14 June 2021 was acquitted. [21] On 19 July 2021 he flew from Chișinău to London,and from there he flew to Prague. [22]
