Plahotniuc Is Not Part of Undesirable or Subject to Sanctions Persons List

Three weeks have passed since the former Democrat leader Vladimir Plahotniuc was declared by the US Department of State as the person “directly or indirectly involved in significant corruption acts”. However, the decision taken by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, has not yet led to the fact that Vladimir Plahotniuc was included in the lists of persons subject to sanctions in the United States or elsewhere, mold-street.com writes. The Plahotniuc’s name does not appear in the database of persons wanted by Interpol or on the SECO (State Secretariat for Economic Affairs) list, that is, persons sanctioned by Switzerland. You can find the name of Vladimir Antyufeev (the former head of the Tiraspol security service), but neither Vlad Plahotniuc nor Ilan Shor are there. The oligarch also does not appear on the wanted list compiled by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the US Department of the Treasury. OFAC publishes a Specially Designated Nationals List (SDN) that lists people, organizations, and ships with which U.S. citizens and permanent residents are prohibited from having connections. On this list, however, one can find Turk Cherkez Akbulut (also Murat, Altyg, Chernit, etc.), who is accused of drug trafficking and received the Moldovan passport in 2000. He is followed by Sergei Aksenov, born in Balti but who since 2014 is the head of the Republic of Crimea and is actually the leader of separatists. Aksenov also appears on the list of persons wanted by Interpol, or on the list of persons subject to UN, SECO, EU, Canada, UK, Australia, etc. Another separatist leader from Crimea with a “Moldavian” origin is Vladimir Konstantinov, who in 2014 headed the local parliament on this peninsula and took an active part in the annexation of Crimea by Russia. OFAC also includes Russian millionaire Alexander Babakov, born in Chisinau, who owned energy assets in Ukraine and supported separatist activities there.