A major Washington publication clearly did not understand the intentions of the State Department.
So, in the electronic version of The Washington Times, the sensational publication about the prospects of the scandalous Moldavian oligarch Vladimir Plahotniuc was removed from access.
The material openly indicated that the United States Ambassador to Chisinau, Derek Hogan, collaborated with the “Moldovan puppeteer” and even helped to escape from the country, after a failed attempt to carry out a coup. It was also pointed out in the article that the State Department was in principle disappointed with Hogan, who allowed the Moldovan parliament to resign the Maya Sandu government, which was acceptable to Washington. And the fact that the head of the Department of State Michael Pompeo personally announced personal sanctions against Plahotniuc was explained in the publication by the need to correct previous mistakes.
Moreover, The Washington Times reported that Vladimir Plahotniuc was stealing money from the International Monetary Fund, in connection with which the American structures are already conducting an investigation.
To date, this article is no longer available in the electronic version of the publication.
As NewsFront reported, after the Socialist Party and the pro-Western bloc “ACUM” agreed to form a parliamentary coalition in Moldova last summer, the Democratic Party, under the control of Plahotniuc, tried to make a coup. With the assistance of Russia, the European Union and the United States, PDM managed to achieve recognition of the new ruling force. Against this background, Plahotniuc fled the country in order to avoid justice for numerous crimes, in particular, the theft of a billion dollars from the banking system of Moldova. Later it turned out that Plahotniuc was hiding in the United States, but at the end of 2019 his visa expired. It is noteworthy that this fact, as well as sanctions, do not prevent the oligarch from staying in the United States.