For a year, criminal case in which Anatol Plugaru, the first ruler of the current Security and Intelligence Service (SIS), together with Ion Plugaru, his nephew, are accused of fraud in large proportions, is suspended. They, through the company PLUGARUL Ltd, received at least 10 million lei to build an apartment block on Ciuflea Street in Chisinau, but to this day the building was not constructed, and the money were not returned to people. Since the beginning of 2013, in the file led by the Daria Suschevici, from Centre Court, there was no hearing, the parties awaiting the results of an expert in construction, requested by Plugaru’s lawyer.

“Expertise is to determine which is the amount of the work done, which is the cost, to be clear how much money have been invested in construction. At the moment, are heard, practically, all sides, all materials were studied, and at the closing judicial inquiry, defendants counsel made ​​a step by requesting the expertise. How come, if there are no questions, we turn to oral presentations”, says attorney Andrew Matco, who represents the state prosecution. The expertise results are still expected, and until the intervention of ZdG, nobody could tell when they will be ready .

A year for an expertise

Mariana Paladi is an expert of National Judicial Expertise Center (NJEC) who must carry out the expertise. She refused to talk to us. After I insisted, vicedirector NJEC, Lilian Belibov, told us that expertise is not ready because the institution has a lot of work and there are just few experts. Subsequently the first discussion, he told us that in “the coming days”, the expert will do the expertise, that was required in the beginning of 2013. The delay in completing the expertise make the people, who have lost tens of thousands of euros after dealing with the company of the former Chief of Security, say that weird things are happening, and that through it, Plugaru wants to delay the case. They do not exclude the fact that the former deputy is trying to make a deal with the expert to trick the results of expert examination.

“Of course he attempts. Often we realized that we have all arguments and anyway we can not manage anything. We think he slowly tries to approach everyone”, says Maria Cataraga, one of the investors in invisible apartments. “Probably he already bought the expertise. Otherwise can not be explained this procrastination” opines Olesea Pavalenco, another investor. “The expert is criminally liable for the results of the expertise”, warns Lilian Belibov .

“Initially, Plugaru claimed to invest 10 mln. lei in the foundation. Previously, another expertise was done, but the expert did just report and refused to give conclusions, because were not submitted some documents that would confirm spending money on that building. Normally, expertise results should be confirmed by documentation demonstrating that in that building has been invested that money”, declares Vladimir Balan, PLUGARUL’s company administrator of the process of insolvency.

Last year, appeared other “losers”

The Ltd founded by Anatol and Vyacheslav (his son) Plugaru, in 1995, and managed by his grandson, John Plugaru, came officially into insolvency proceedings in 2013. Under the law, insolvency is “financial situation characterized by the inability to honor its payment obligations”. Normally, in the process, Ltd is restructured, and persons holding enforceable titles confirming the debts that the company owns them are recouped some of the money, gradually. Subsequently, to recover debts, can be sold all the goods that the company owns.

In insolvency proceedings, were conducted, last year, suspicious actions. “Recently, in addition to initial investors, who had contracts and we knew for a long time, others have emerged, claiming that the company PLUGARUL owes them about 17 million lei and they  have also invested money in the construction. Coming to 27 million lei, already, that Plugaru claims that he invested in the foundation”, said Vladimir Balan. “These claims I did not recognize. Now, we are in trial, to clarify whether or not these people have invested there, because nobody has court decisions, no complaints were addressed anywhere until insolvency procedure appeared. Nobody has bank transfers, they all have receipts, that are not official and do not confirm investing money. In connection with this moment, I refered MAI and a criminal case has been filed on this amounts as well, and I understood that were recognized suspects Plugaru Ion and Plugaru Anatol”. The existence of a new criminal case against Anatol and John Plugaru has been confirmed for ZdG by George Malic, head of Criminal Investigation of the IGP, who although did not give us more details.

Companies of Plugaru family

“When everyone else was going to strikes, trials, were writing complaints, from these, no one, wrote, nowhere. I understood that they are all relatives of Plugaru. They are in-laws, grandchildren, godfathers, sons, daughters and so on… Theoretically, the purpose of these actions would be to implicate some fictitious creditors in the case, and if it would sell the foundation or building, he would take all the money, through his relatives. Beside lying to people till now, he wants to keep lying”, thinks Vladimir Balan.

Supreme Court examined two weeks ago the request of more persons to be accepted as losers in the insolvency procedure of the company PLUGARUL, sending the case back to the Court of Appeal. Among those people, I found the name of John Uncu. We do not know if Uncu and Plugaru are relatives, a fact is that they are at least business partners. PLUGARUL company, according to data from the State Registration Chamber, is the founder of the company “MARIA- UNIM” Ltd., with 98%. The company has its headquarters on the same address with the company PLUGARUL, bd. Moscow 14/1, and is administered by Ion Uncu, and listed among the founders is Ioana Uncu, his daughter, and also another person, who requires the inclusion in the list of creditors. According to the same data, company PLUGARUL Ltd. owns the other 50% of the company “M.I. PROJECT” Ltd. Anatol Plugaru also holds society SA PROATOM, which, from the end of last year, is also in the insolvency procedure. Moreover, Olesea Plugaru, daughter of Anatol Plugaru, is founder, with 20% at Ltd. AVOIR. All these Ltd-s are active and, at least theoretically, generating incomes.

“At present, the company owns an unfinished building and an apartment claimed by a nephew of Plugaru. Additionally, we challenged some contracts through which the company has transmitted into the property 500 sqm of commercial space, worth 180 thousand euros, to Anatol Plugaru’s daughter, for legal services. In this process there are a number of problems with the police and prosecutors, who tolerate criminal activity of Plugaru. Company’s stamp, till now, has not been delivered, but the police, together with Rascani prosecutor, refuse to start criminal proceedings. It seems that Plugaru is protected from all sides”, said Balan.

Plugaru: I have moral debts, not material

Anatol Plugaru is declaring innocent. “I am also very outraged by this stretch of expertise, because it means my immediate rehabilitation and people that I hired… Its a nonsense when they say that I drawl, coming from unhealthy people in the head or malicious. I, many times, outraged that dragging. I sent people there, also my lawyer … Examination shows expenses were made. We have invested there not 27 million but about 37. I hope the expertise will confirm it, because the object is already raised, more than zero level, it is under the 1st floor, and that’s the bulk of spending in such an object”, says Plugaru. When I talked about statements of Vladimir Balan concerning his relatives, Plugaru said that these are “stupidities”, calling Vladimir Balan “a criminal that expects rainy days. He is a raider attack. He is a  bandit and, shortly, when everything here will end up, he will be charged for everything he did. People to who he referres are not my relatives, and SCJ rehabilitated them few days ago. Soon, they will assemble and ward him off …”, he said, noting that also the criminal case from IGP ‘s was also initiated by Balan’s order.

Following this discussion, Anatol Plugaru returned with a call. He mentioned that, in fact, he is not indebted to anyone. “Under the law, not only that I do not owe anyone anything, but neither the administrator. We would owe if it were demonstrated that there were spent less money than we have gained from people. I have moral debts, not material, to people who believed in me. We do not manage the project any more. Those who are now managing, people who complain, will not be in loss in any way, because in that building were invested several times more money than they wrote in petitions. Plugaru do not owe them anything. In fact, there are about 10 million lei of Plugaru’s company, in the construction. We even went into damage after this case”, he claimes.

Victor MOSNEAG