Dinu Plîngău
According to him, the classification of assets under the sorting plan initiated by the Public Property Agency in 2023 requires serious clarification. In some cases, the classification of companies into one category or another appears questionable even at the initial stage.
“I am surprised by the inclusion, for example, of Moldtelecom JSC and Franzeluța JSC in the category of enterprises subject to privatization under the sorting plan. We need to find out why many state-owned enterprises were not transferred to the jurisdiction of the Public Property Agency, as was supposed to happen, and why the founding ministries lost contact with many of them,” Plîngău stated at a press conference.
He noted that since most state-owned enterprises—which were not legally transferred to the Agency’s jurisdiction—were effectively left in limbo, and the state had lost contact with them, they might still hold certain assets—land plots, buildings, property, and so on.
“As part of the commission, we agreed to insist on clarifying this issue and, if necessary, to examine each enterprise individually to determine what assets it held and what happened to them over the years,” he said.
According to the Agency for Public Services, 1,359 state-owned enterprises have been registered in the Republic of Moldova from 1991 to the present. As a result of reorganizations and liquidations in recent years, 515 of them are currently active. Nevertheless, the investigative commission identified an unclear situation that arose after 2017, when the government decided to transfer all state-owned enterprises to the management of the Public Property Agency.
Public hearings will be held on Friday to discuss the allocation criteria, the appropriateness of the decisions made, and the current status of the plan’s implementation.
