Socialist MP Corneliu Furculiță was heard on Friday, July 29, by prosecutors as a defendant in a criminal case filed on the fact of illicit enrichment. The information was confirmed to Ziarul de Gardă by prosecutor Mariana Cherpec, spokeswoman of the Prosecutor General’s Office.

During the hearings, Furculiță pleaded not guilty, refusing to make statements about the circumstances of the case under investigation, said Cherpec.

“A procedural measure of coercion was taken against him in the form of an obligation to report to the Prosecutor’s Office. The criminal prosecution is underway and we will come back with further information upon its completion,” said the spokeswoman of the Prosecutor’s Office.

In the summer of 2020, the Prosecutor General’s Office announced that it had no grounds to verify the MP’s assets. Ziarul de Gardă previously wrote that the only current politician officially listed as the owner and beneficiary of TV stations is Socialist MP Corneliu Furculiță. He officially controls NTV Moldova and Exclusiv TV.

After ZdG caught Corneliu Furculiță in the summer of 2020 living in an imposing house that he had not declared, in April 2021 the socialist decided to include the property in his declaration of wealth and personal interests, filed on 31 March 2021. The asset was registered with the Cadastre just two months after ZdG caught the MP and his wife at the house located in a suburb of the capital. The socialist said at the time that the land on which the house stands belongs to his eldest daughter and that the property is a “family investment” and that “several people” participated in the construction. The MEP said at the time that the building had not been put into use because work was still being done on it and that “we will decide who will be the owner”.