Corruption Allegations
The younger Voronin has often been accused of corruption, but most recently it was the Tiraspol Times that raised the issue. In response to these accusations Oleg replied:
| “ | They say, for example, that I am withdrawing the marshroutkas currently working in city streets in order to replace them with my vehicles. They also claim that I have allegedly bought up the companies of Andy's Pizza, Supraten, and DAAC-Hermes. This is but a delirium. I stand ready to expose and energetically combat every effort of the banditry businesses that are being imputed to me, or, rather, to my dad - President Voronin. | ” |
Further claims were made in a Moldovan article from the Ziarul de Gardă, and include but are not limited to:
- Zahar - the Moldovan sugar syndicate, which Oleg Voronin controls, and an allegedly shady 1997 deal in which several thousand tons of sugar were sold to Romania. The problem here is that the entire national product of Moldova is not this high, and the assumed source of this sugar was donations made by the Cuban government to aid Moldovan hospitals.
- That his opponents have been "cast away, bankrupted or arrested."
Oleg Voronin is suspected of fiscal evasion and money laundering, the press officer of the Centre for Combating Economic Crimes and Corruption (CCCEC), Angela Starinschi, said on February 22, 2010. In 2008-2009, Oleg Voronin paid 67 million lei ($US 5.3 million) for different goods and services while abroad with bank cards. At the same time, his income statements showed only 4 million lei. Oleg Voronin expressed his dissatisfaction with the fact that the information about his expenses became known and said he will complain to the Prosecutor General's Office.
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