Friday, June 15, 2012

Controversial Businessmen Move Into Moldova

01:21, June 16, 2012

Series Overview

Romanian businessmen accused of major fraud and other crimes are exporting similar looking business strategies across the Prut River into Moldova.  Moldova, a country of 3.5 million with language and cultural ties to its European neighbor, has struggled through a 20-year transition from part of the old Soviet Union to independent democracy. Feeble state institutions, inadequate legal safeguards, corruption and poverty have created a fertile ground for criminal groups even as the country makes timid first steps towards EU integration.  The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project looks at a number of businessmen who ran afoul of Romanian police yet have opened shop in their neighbor often with connections to high-level Moldovan officials.

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