Petro Bondar
According to the speaker, this decision is not related to Bondar’s activities at the state-owned enterprise, but is due to questionable schemes involving land plots and mineral resources in the village of Koshnytsia, Dubossary District.
Igor Grosu explained that the authorities had uncovered a recurring pattern: certain companies controlled by the Bondar family were purchasing agricultural land, beneath which deposits of sand were subsequently “miraculously” discovered.
“We noticed a certain pattern (editor’s note: a recurring trend). A company would acquire a plot of land, and—lo and behold!—a deposit would be discovered beneath that land after some time. This happened in both cases. It was also evident that they were trying to push this issue through a vote in the local council. In one of the towns, a referendum was even held, and the participants voted against it. Despite this, the company that owned the plots transferred money to the city halls in both cases: 4 million in one case and 2 million lei in the other. “These sums were intended to cover the change in land use in the absence of a local council decision approving such a procedure,” stated Igor Grosu.
The PAS leader emphasized that in both cases, members of the Bondar family were listed as founders of the companies implicated in the scandal.
He assured that the commission will continue its audits of state-owned enterprises. Earlier, President Maia Sandu stated that there is a serious systemic failure that requires radical intervention and a “cleanup” within government agencies.
