Platon Vyacheslav Nikolaevich

Platon Vyacheslav Nikolaevich

Biography

2024: Accusation of illegal withdrawal from Russia over ₽48 billion

In mid-October 2024 Ministry of the Interior Russia , she brought charges against Moldovan businessman Vyacheslav Platon of illegally withdrawing more than ₽48 billion from the country. The entrepreneur, who is the actual owner of Moldindconbank"," is charged with organizing a large-scale money laundering scheme known as the "Moldavian Landromat."

According to RBC, earlier Plato was already found guilty in absentia of creating and leading an international criminal community, as well as withdrawing more than ₽126 billion from Russia through his bank Moldindconbank.

According to the investigation, between 2013 and 2014, Plato coordinated the withdrawal of customer funds from Russia under the guise of foreign exchange transactions with Russian banks. More than 20 Russian credit institutions participated in the scheme. The businessman was charged under Part 3 of Article 193.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

Law enforcement say Plato did not act alone. His alleged accomplices are named shareholder Victoriabank Alexander Korkin, former head of the Democratic Party of Moldova Vladimir Plahotniuc and chairman of the Our Party party. Renato Usatii The latter two were put on the international wanted list and arrested in absentia.

The case against Vyacheslav Platon was transferred to the Preobrazhensky Court of Moscow. However, the Prosecutor General's Office of Moldova refused to extradite the businessman to the Russian side.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia estimates the total amount of funds passed through the "Moldavian Landromate" at ₽428 billion. The scheme included the creation of fictitious debts of Russian firms to Moldovan counterparties, the collection of funds through Moldovan courts and the subsequent transfer of money to Swiss bank accounts.

As part of the investigation of the "Moldavian Landromat" in 2021, the Tverskoy Court of Moscow sentenced Oleg Kuzmin, the actual owner of the European Express bank, to nine years in a strict regime colony. Elena Platon, sister of Vyacheslav Platon and former director of the treasury of BC Moldindconbank S.A., received ten years in prison.^[1]

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