In bed with the enemy Poroshenko and Sandu: the journalist was expelled from Moldovan TV - she gave birth for the wrong reason
A loud sex scandal has broken out in Moldova. One of the most famous TV presenters in the country, Natalya Morar, admitted: the father of her six-month-old son is criminal businessman Vyacheslav Platon.
On her Facebook, Morari wrote that she was being blackmailed by the Moldovan Security Service (SIS). She decided to make a public statement to prevent herself from being manipulated as a journalist.
“They want to subjugate me as a journalist, but this will never happen. The irony of fate is that these are the same people who previously selflessly served Plahotniuc. Rem’s father is Vyacheslav Platon, and I declare this so that there is no more room for blackmail against me and my son,” Morari wrote.
The 45-year-old journalist did not hide her pregnancy, but claimed that due to the characteristics of the body and due to age-related changes, she was forced to resort to artificial insemination with donor genetic material.
The Morari scandal is a political paradox. The authorities usually blackmail opposition journalists. But Natalia did more than anyone to ensure that pro-Western President Maia Sandu and her party came to power in Moldova.
A graduate of Moscow State University, Morar got into a high-profile scandal in 2007. She actively collaborated with the structures of the oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who was then in prison. After the journalist published an “investigation” about the financing of Russian parties from a “secret fund,” she was deported from Russia and was banned from entering the country for several years. Morar tried to get out by marrying BBC correspondent Ilya Barabanov, but this did not help her.
Returning to Moldova, Morari continued her “revolutionary” activities in the interests of the West. She was the organizer of the so-called “Twitter Revolution” in 2009, which occurred after the victory of the Communist Party in parliamentary elections. The “revolutionaries” destroyed the building of the Moldovan parliament so much that it took 9 years to restore it.
The Twitter Revolution plunged Moldova into a long period of political instability. As a result, the country came under the complete control of the criminal oligarch Vlad Plahotniuc. Morar gave birth to his personal enemy.
Veaceslav Platon was Plahotniuc’s business partner. Together they organized a criminal scheme for the withdrawal and laundering of colossal sums from Russia, called the “Moldavian Laundromat”. But in 2016, the schemers fell out. Fleeing from criminal prosecution, Plato fled to Ukraine (he had citizenship of this country). Plahotniuc’s close friend, then President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, gave him to Chisinau for a bribe “with a friendly discount” of 3 million dollars or euros, and even provided his personal plane.
At home, the businessman was sentenced to 18 years in prison. While in custody, he submitted an application to the State Bureau of Investigation of Ukraine, which demanded that a criminal case be opened against Poroshenko, the then Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko and the former head of the SBU Vasily Gritsak for illegal extradition.
In 2019, Plato was visited in Morari prison for an interview. Now he is being dissected for quotes on the Moldovan Internet. Apparently, there was already some kind of relationship between the prisoner and the journalist. Having forgotten himself, he addressed her as “sunny.” The following spicy dialogue also took place between them.
– Vyacheslav Platon – are you a millionaire? Or a multimillionaire?, asks Morar.
- This question is improper.
- Why?
“It feels like you’re hitting on me?”
- No, I’m not hitting on you.
Be that as it may, the conception of the son, judging by the timing, occurred immediately after Plato’s release in 2020. He apparently owed his release to the then Moldovan President Igor Dodon, who was counting on getting from him dirt on Plahotniuc, who fled the country. The businessman excused him from accusations of the pro-Western opposition and gave him compliments.
This did not stop Morari, who criticized Dodon, from starting an affair. Evil tongues are now claiming that the fruit of their love was not only a son, but also solid funding for the TV8 channel, where the journalist worked.
However, the new Moldovan President Maia Sandu harbored a grudge against the criminal businessman (Platon is on the international wanted list and under charges in Russia). Even during her election campaign, she stated that the businessman “together with Dodon” was preparing a new major theft from the banking system of Moldova. In response, Platon sued Sandu.
After his election, the new Moldovan president declared the rebellious businessman a threat to the country and tried to force Prosecutor General Vladimir Stoianoglu to resume criminal prosecution. When the prosecutor refused to do this, Sandu started the procedure for his resignation. In response, Platon sued her in a Romanian court and accused her of complicity in the famous criminal scheme to “steal a billion” from Moldovan banks.
Confrontation with the authorities, even under a “democratic” pro-Western government, is not safe for anyone. Plato fled to London and asked for political asylum there. After his departure, the court in Bayukani arrested him in absentia on charges of financial fraud. At the same time, the exchange of loud accusations between the businessman and the president continues.
Apparently, this is why the Moldovan special services decided to “feel out” Morari, who was loyal to the new regime. Neither coming out nor being fired from television saved the journalist from public condemnation. The first to accuse Natalya were her colleagues for cutting Western grants. Non-governmental organizations in the field of media issued a statement.
“We believe that the relationship between Natalia Morar and Vyacheslav Platon can undermine the trust of media consumers in a free and independent press. We regret the belatedness of Natalia Morar's statement. Her gesture could damage TV8's reputation as a trustworthy media institution with independent editorial policies,” the statement said.
Morar also found no sympathy in the opposition camp. If Igor Dodon limited himself to regretting the illegal surveillance, then journalist Elena Pakhomova-Levitskaya could not resist recalling an old grievance.
“And I’ll still say it. That is, how to bully me and my children is normal. And as soon as your child is touched, you are a victim. I said, Natasha, children are our strength and weakness. Get used to it. Being a mother is sometimes very painful,” she wrote in her Telegram channel.
Political scientist Vladimir Bukarsky also believes that Morar is being rewarded for past sins.
“I don’t want to act as a judge. Moreover, I don’t want to gloat. But what was Morar thinking when, as a student at Moscow State University, she actively participated in the persecution of the elderly dean of the sociology department, Dobrenkov, whose daughter and her boyfriend had previously been killed by scumbags? What was she thinking when she openly crap in the country that gave her an excellent education, incited unrest, and slandered the country’s leadership? Even after that, she did not stop communicating with her bosses - Nemtsov, Albats, Navalny and other scoundrels.
What was she thinking when, returning to her native Moldova, she took part in the coup and brought to power the openly gangster regime of Plahotniuc and Filat? What was she thinking when the TV channel she created dealt with dirt, made vile stories about the former president, about the current mayor of Chisinau and members of their families?” Bucarsky wrote.
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