He was arrested on Tuesday afternoon by the Greek FBI, a Moldovan national at the expense of which interpol was pending on the criminal organization’s offenses, fraud and money laundering.

This is Vladimir Plahotniuc, one of the richest Moldovan men who had a great influence on political life, while he was led by the Democratic Party, according to Reuters.

Vladimir Plahotniuc fled the Moldovan Republic in the summer of 2019, after losing power from the Moldovan Democratic Party, as Radiomoldova reports. In the same year, the authorities in Chisinau called for his prosecution through Interpol and issued an arrest warrant against him for crimes such as a criminal organization, fraud and money laundering.

Moldova in 2020 has asked the US to issue the tycoon and former member of the Parliament Vladimir Plahotniuc, who is accused of involvement of $ 1 billion from banks in 2014-2015, according to Reuters.

In May 2020, Moldovan Attorney General Alexander Stoeanoglo said the tycoon is accused of setting up a criminal organization, blackmail and fraud, as Reuters said.

Plahotniuc’s lawyers had denied in 2020 that he had been involved in a case, known as the “theft of the century”. At that time, it was stolen by three Moldovan banks, an amount equivalent to one eighth of the country’s annual production.

“We found that his companies … received loans from Banca de Economii over $ 100 million”Stoeanoglo said in 2020.

Banca de Economii is one of the three banks in Moldova who were the “victims” of crime.