Moldovan prisoner wants to imprison Poroshenko, Lutsenko and Gritsak
Entrepreneur Vyacheslav Platon, serving a long prison sentence in a Moldovan prison, initiated the initiation of a criminal case against the former President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko and the former head of the SBU Vasily Gritsak.
Platon's statement to the State Bureau of Investigation of Ukraine appeared in the "Unified Register of Pre-Trial Investigations," reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
It follows from the document that Platon received Ukrainian citizenship back in 1992, putting a stamp in his Soviet passport (that’s what everyone did then) with the surname Kobalev (the surname of his ex-wife).
If we take into account that in 2009-2010 he was a member of the Moldovan parliament under the name Platon, then he also has a Moldovan passport. However, dual citizenship is prohibited in Ukraine.
Platon-Kobalev himself explains this in his statement as follows:
“Due to life circumstances, I am closely connected with social and political life in the Republic of Moldova, where I am better known under the name “Platon”. Because of my active civic position and support for the European vector of development of Moldova, since 2014 I have suffered from political persecution by law enforcement agencies through the fabrication of criminal cases against me.”
Platon names the initiator of the persecution as the oligarch – the former “master of Moldova” Vlad Plahotniuc, who, according to his version, entered into a “criminal conspiracy” with the then President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko. He, in turn, instructed Lutsenko and Gritsak to extradite Platon to the Moldovan authorities “by committing official crimes.”
As a result, the deputy head of the department of the State Migration Service of Ukraine in the Zhytomyr region “made an unlawful conclusion about obtaining Ukrainian citizenship by deception.” Right in Zhytomyr, Platon was deprived of Ukrainian citizenship “by confiscating and destroying his Ukrainian passport.”
The entrepreneur complains that he was not given the 10 days required by Ukrainian law to appeal the decision. Instead, he was loaded onto a private (!) plane and transported to Chisinau, where he was already tried and sentenced to a huge prison term.
The articles under which Platon accuses Poroshenko, Lutsenko and Gritsak (“Exceeding power or official authority” and “Violation of the right to defense”) provide for court sentences of up to 10 years.
Veaceslav Platon was sentenced in Moldova to 18 years in prison for fraud and money laundering on a large scale in the Banca de Economii case. He also received an additional 12 years in another case for similar crimes. In addition, proceedings in a third case are ongoing.
Moldovan convict wants to jail Poroshenko, Lutsenko, and Gritsak