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Dodon acknowledges Transnistria’s 6 billion dollar debt to Gazprom as Moldova’s debt
Igor Dodon, the president of Moldova, acknowledged in a statement made during his official visit to Moscow that Transnistria’s debts for natural gas as “Moldova’s overall debt” of 6.5 billion dollars, Radio Chisinau informs.
Dodon added that Chisinau was examining possible variants to pay the debt to the Russian company Gazprom.
“We have some ideas to get out of this situation. We must understand that this debt of 6.5 billion dollars id Moldova’s total debt,”Dodon said, quoted by Infotag. According to the head of state, the Russian concern Gazprom does not divide the debt into Transnistria’s and Moldova’s debt.
Maia Sandu, the president of the Action and Solodarity Party wrote on Facebook that Igor Dodon “instead of looking for the one billion dollars stolen from the banking system, burdens us with another 6 billions.”
“Dodon makes us another ‘present’: he assumes, on our behalf, a 6.5 billion dollar debt to Gazprom. Instead of looking for the billions tolen from the banking system, he burdens us with another 6 billions. These debts are not ours. We paid our invoices in time. Nobody supplied us with free natural gas or electricity. If Dodon and his government allies have debts - for the money received from off shores to finance election campaigns, for the ways they produce electricity without paying for the gas consumed while taking from us full price and many other things- can as well pay their own debts,” Maia Sandu says.