Galina Dodon, mother of former Moldovan President Igor Dodon, was summoned to the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (PA) on 10 August to be informed of “the result of the expert report on the ammunition found at her home” during the searches at the end of May in the case against her son. At the same time, on 27 July, Galina Dodon, the mother of socialist Igor Dodon, was summoned to the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office “to be charged with complicity in illicit enrichment”, Mariana Cherpec, spokeswoman for the Prosecutor General’s Office, told Ziarul de Gardă.

In a reaction on Facebook, the socialist Dodon wrote that the ammunition prosecutors are announcing is in fact “some hunting cartridges”.

“Are the few hunting cartridges, found in a house where there is a decades-old tradition of husband-and-son hunting, a reason to carry an elderly woman through the prosecutor’s office?” wrote Igor Dodon on Facebook.

Earlier, the Prosecutor General’s Office announced that, “as a result of searches at the home of the former president’s mother, funds in the amount of 689,600.00 lei; 17,005.00 euros and 1,000.00 US dollars were found and seized from the safe, the provenance of which is to be investigated. The sum of 17 005.00 euros, found at the home of the accused’s mother, was in a paper envelope bearing the logo of a political party to which the former president belonged”.

Illicit enrichment is one of the charges brought by prosecutors against the country’s former president, socialist Igor Dodon, along with three other counts: passive bribery, accepting political party financing by a criminal organisation and treason against the Motherland.

Officials from the Prosecutor General’s Office announce that the accused and his defenders have appeared before prosecutors from the Prosecutor General’s Office, where they were informed in the manner provided by law about the end of the prosecution actions.

The General Prosecutor’s Office informs that on Tuesday, August 9, 2022, it finished the criminal prosecution actions on the incriminated episode of the former President of the Republic of Moldova, Igor Dodon, targeted in the criminal case, generically called “Energocom”.
Socialist Igor Dodon was detained on 24 May after anti-corruption prosecutors carried out ten raids for more than ten hours at several locations owned by Dodon and his relatives.

The searches took place in Sadova, at Igor Dodon’s parental home and house in Chisinau, at the Sadova “Sadovo” rest base, at Molovata on the Dniester river, where Dodon’s family has invested in another rest base, at the headquarters of the foundations of the former socialist president of Moldova, including the headquarters of the Moldovan-Russian Business Union, where Dodon is president.

During the raids, prosecutors seized goods and money worth tens of millions of lei, and more than 600 thousand lei, 17 thousand euros and 1000 dollars were found in one of the locations searched.

Prosecutors also found a receipt showing that Igor Dodon’s wife had paid 25 thousand euros, cash, in August 2021 as a deposit for kitchen equipment. The Guard newspaper identified the person who signed this receipt. She provided us with details of the transaction. The trail leads to the ex-president’s brother-in-law, detained by prosecutors while swallowing a receipt, and to an all-inclusive resort on the Nistru River, purchased last summer.

Later, prosecutors said that some of the former head of state’s relatives are being investigated for complicity in committing the crime of illicit enrichment. As a result of the searches carried out at the homes of these persons, according to the PG, goods, money and documents allegedly used in the commission of the crime or resulting from these acts were found and seized.

On 16 June, Galina Dodon, the wife of former Moldovan President Igor Dodon, a socialist, was found to be an accomplice in the illicit enrichment case against her husband Igor Dodon and is banned from leaving the country for 60 days.

According to Prosecutor Mariana Cherpec, spokeswoman for the Prosecutor General’s Office, Galina Dodon did not admit her guilt in the commission of the crime, refusing to make any statements about the circumstances of the case.