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Moldovan ex-prime minister charged over airport concession

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Former Moldovan Prime Minister Iurie Leancă was charged on Tuesday (2 May) with abuse of authority over a deal that handed control of the main airport of the country to a businessman in exile.

Veronica Dragalin is the head of Moldova’s anti-corruption prosecutor office. She said that a former minister of economy and six other officials were also facing similar charges in a case she said was referred to court.

She told a press conference in Chisinau, the capital of Moldova, that all the accused had pleaded innocent.

The 2013 concession gave control of the Chisinau International Airport to a company affiliated with businessman and politician Ilan Shor. He fled Moldova after Maia Sandu was elected pro-Western president in 2019.

A court of appeal ruled in November last year that the airport's control should be returned to the state.

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