Vlad Filat didn’t want Iurie Leanca to hold a new term as Prime Minister as he feared the thefts committed at Banca de Economii (BEM) will be discovered, MP Eugen Carpov, who is the deputy chairman of the European People’s Party, said in a talk show on TVR Moldova channel, quoted by IPN.
“Iurie Leanca, after seeing that the state institutions didn’t react to his reports about the irregularities committed at the BEM, decided to use the services of a foreign audit company. After he made public this intention, Filat did his utmost to prevent Iurie Leanca from holding a new term as Premier. The request for an external investigation to be conducted at the BEM meant then the end of Leanca’s tenure,” stated the lawmaker.
As to anticorruption prosecutors’ statements about the discovery of evidence showing that the former leader of the PLDM followed some of the politicians, Carpov said he felt he was followed when he decided to leave the Liberal Democratic Party and to join the political project of Iurie Leanca. “I don’t know if it was Vlad Filat, but I felt that I was followed for a period,” he stated.
Iurie Leanca left the PLDM, where he served as deputy head of the party, in February 2015, after he didn’t gain the number of votes needed to hold a new term as Prime Minster. The MPs of the PLDM and PDM voted then for Leanca. After leaving the PLDM, Iurie Leanca launched a new political project that was joined by functionaries of the Government he headed. In the October 15 sitting of Parliament, some of the MPs said that ex-Premiers Vlad Filat and Iurie Leanca should be both deprived of parliamentary immunity because they signed documents that had a negative impact on the national financial-banking system.
