By Alexander Tanas CHISINAU, April 22 (Reuters) - A Moldovan court sentenced business magnate and former political ...

The ruling was issued by the Buiucani Court in Chisinau. Plahotniuc did not attend the announcement of the verdict. Vladimir Plahotniuc was found guilty of complicity in the theft of 1 billion euros ...

CHISINAU -- A Moldovan court has sentenced oligarch and former political tycoon Vladimir Plahotniuc to 19 years in prison in a decade-old bank fraud case known as "the theft of the century." In a ...

CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — A court in Moldova sentenced a former opposition leader and one of the nation's richest men on Wednesday to 19 years in a fraud case that saw a billion dollars stolen from ...

CHISINAU, April 22. /TASS/. A Chisinau court sentenced Moldovan oligarch and former Democratic Party leader Vladimir Plahotniuc to 19 years in prison for stealing one billion dollars from the ...

A former businessman, lawmaker and kingpin in the Democratic Party of Moldova, Plahotniuc fled Moldova in 2019, as he faced a series of corruption charges. View on euronews ...

A Moldovan oligarch and former opposition leader has been sentenced to 19 years in a fraud case in which a billion dollars stolen from banks in the country more than a decade ago.

FILE - Vladimir Plahotniuc, a Moldovan oligarch, is escorted by police, after being extradited from Greece, at the Eugen Doga International Airport in Chisinau, Moldova, on Sept. 25, 2025. FILE - ...