Oleg Voronin

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Oleg Voronin, is the son of current Moldovan president Vladimir Voronin. He is also one of the wealthiest Moldovans and the owner of several of the largest businesses in Moldova. These include, but are not limited to:

  • FinComBank - Controls the monthly payments for Moldtelecomm (the national phone company) and processes the salaries of the Internal Minister, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Finance and the Chancellor of State.
  • Aroma - One of the largest distillers of alcoholic beverages.
  • "Metal-market" Construction Firm - A company that has received numerous state contracts to rebuild monasteries, museums and hotels.
  • "Transline" Transportation - A rail company which transports Moldovan grain to other countries.[1]

[edit] Corruption

The younger Voronin has often been accused of corruption, but most recently it was the Tiraspol Times[2] that raised the issue. In response to these accusations Oleg replied:

"They say, for example, that I am withdrawing the marshroutkas [route taxi minibuses] currently working in city streets in order to replace them with my vehicles. They also claim that I have allegedly bought up the companies of Andy's Pizza, Supraten, and DAAC-Hermes. This is but a delirium. I stand ready to expose and energetically combat every effort of the banditry businesses that are being imputed to me, or, rather, to my dad - President Voronin."[3]

Further claims were made in a Moldovan article from the Ziarul de Gardă, and include but are not limited to:

  • Zahar - the Moldovan sugar syndicate, which Oleg Voronin controls, and a shady 1997 deal in which several thousand tons of sugar were sold in Romania. The problem here is that the entire national product of Moldova is not this high, and the assumed source of this magical sugar was donations made by the Cuban government to aid Moldovan hospitals.
  • That his opponents have been "cast away, bankrupted or arrested."[4]

[edit] Sources

  1. http://politicom.moldova.org/stiri/rom/1565/ (Romanian)
  2. http://www.tiraspoltimes.com/node/628
  3. http://www.azi.md/news?ID=43492
  4. http://garda.com.md/29/investigatii/ (Romanian)