On 18 October a Chisinau court put former Prime Minister of Moldova, Vlad Filat, under a 30-day preventive arrest, as he was accused of influence peddling, fraud and passive bribery in connection with the alleged theft of over 1 billion dollar from three banks in the country. Filat’s arrest comes just two days after former head of the Savings Bank Ilan Shor, in a statement to the Anti-Corruption Centre, accused Filat of having threatened him to get him to “collaborate” and of demanding millions of euros to be brought to the office of the Liberal-Democratic party. In order to arrest Filat, his parliamentary immunity was lifted after a vote in parliament, which according to Filat’s Liberal Democratic Party (PLDM) was politically motivated.
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