Veaceslav Platon (born 24 January 1973) is a Moldovan businessman and former member of the
Parliament of Moldova
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from 2009 to 2010. He also holds
Russian citizenship
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Platon is one of the wealthiest people in Moldova,
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/ref> with businesses in the field of sugar and banking in Moldova, and atomic energy in Ukraine. In 1994, Platon became vice-president of the administrative board of the Moldovan private bank Moldindconbank, and later became vice-president of the board of another Moldovan bank, Investprivatbank. In 1998, he was elected as a member of the Municipal Council of Chișinău on the lists of the electoral bloc of agrarians.raider
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No. 1 in the CIS
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Platon is the alleged architect of the Russian Laundromat
The Russian Laundromat was a scheme to move $20–80 billion out of Russia from 2010 to 2014 through a network of global banks, many of them in Moldova and Latvia. The ''Guardian'' reported that around 500 people were suspected of being in ...
, a scheme to move $20–80 billion out of Russia from 2010 to 2014 through a network of global banks, many of them in Moldova and Latvia
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On 20 April 2017, Platon was sentenced to 18 years in prison. However, then he was released, re-tried, and on 14 June 2021 was acquitted. On 19 July 2021 he flew from Chișinău to London
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, and from there he flew to Prague
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Personal life and views
Veaceslav Platon is married to Evgenia Tulchevskaya, a Ukrainian woman who at the age of 20 won the Miss Ukraine title in 2009.
Platon is a native speaker of Russian. In a 2016 interview, he stated that the only way for Moldova to escape from the "disastrous situation in which it is" would be the unification with România.Interviu cu Veaceslav Platon: Afacerile din Moldova, relațiile cu Plahotniuc, Țopa și Usatîi, miliardul furat și Unirea cu România
References
External links
Profil pe site-ul parlamentuluiRelațiile lui Platon cu Moldindconbank :Rise Moldova
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1973 births
Living people
Moldovan businesspeople
Moldovan lawyers
Our Moldova Alliance politicians
Moldovan MPs 2009–2010