The Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office will send to court the criminal case started against Marina Tauber and the Shor Party over falsification of reports on the financing of the election campaign and the political party and acceptance of illegal funding from an organized criminal group now that it completed the investigation, IPN reports.
According to prosecutors, Marina Tauber, competing for the post of mayor in snap elections in the municipality of Balti on November 21, 2021 on behalf of the Shor Party, consciously accepted 9.752 million lei from the organized criminal group led by Ilan Shor and illegally introduced 740,000 lei of this sum in donation applications in the name of 104 private individuals, who in reality didn’t donate anything.
The MP is also accused of consciously accepting, as the deputy chairwoman of the Shor Party, 195,518,013 lei from the organized criminal group led by Ilan Shor in the interests of the party. The money was spent on running and maintaining the party for promoting and achieving the interests of the organized criminal group on the political arena of Moldova.
Marina Tauber was stripped of parliamentary immunity by the vote given in Parliament on May 26. The case will be remitted to court after the accused and the lawyers are familiarized with the material of the case file. The Chisinau Appeals Court upheld the May 29 decision by which the Ciocana Court extended the house arrest for Marina Tauber for 20 days.
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