Veaceslav Platon

Veaceslav Platon (born 24 January 1973) is a Moldovan businessman^[4] and former member of the Parliament of Moldova^[5] from 2009^[6] to 2010.^[7] He also holds Russian citizenship.^[8]

Veaceslav Platon
Platon in 2021
Member of the Moldovan Parliament
In office 22 April 2009 – 24 December 2010
Parliamentary group	Our Moldova Alliance
Member of the Chișinău Municipal Council
In office 23 May 1999 – 25 May 2003
Personal details
Born	(1973-01-24) 24 January 1973 (age 52) Căușeni, Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union[1]
Political party	Alliance Our Moldova
Other political affiliations	Alliance for European Integration (2009–2013)
Spouse	Evgenia Tulchevskaya
Children	5
Profession	Lawyer[2][3]

Platon is one of the wealthiest people in Moldova,^[9] with businesses in the field of sugar and banking in Moldova, and atomic energy in Ukraine. In 1994, Platon became vice-president of the administrative board of the Moldovan private bank Moldindconbank, and later became vice-president of the board of another Moldovan bank, Investprivatbank. In 1998, he was elected as a member of the Municipal Council of Chișinău on the lists of the electoral bloc of agrarians.^[8]

He was accused of economic crimes,^{[10][9][11][12][13]} and nicknamed "raider No. 1 in the CIS".^{[14][15][16][17]}

Platon is the alleged architect of the Russian Laundromat, a scheme to move $20–80 billion out of Russia from 2010 to 2014 through a network of global banks, many of them in Moldova and Latvia.^[18]

On 20 April 2017, Platon was sentenced to 18 years in prison.^[19][20] However, then he was released, re-tried, and on 14 June 2021 was acquitted.^[21] On 19 July 2021 he flew from Chișinău to London, and from there he flew to Prague.^[22]

Personal life and views

Veaceslav Platon is married to Evgenia Tulchevskaya, a Ukrainian woman who at the age of 20 won the Miss Ukraine title in 2009.^[23]

In April 2021, journalist Natalia Morari gave birth to Platon's son.^[24]

Platon is a native speaker of Russian. In a 2016 interview, he said that the only way for Moldova to escape from the "disastrous situation in which it is" would be the unification with Romania.^[25]