Moldova blocked a cryptocurrency fund worth $107 million. It was supposed to finance pro-Russian parties.
This was stated by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Moldova, Mihai Popșoi, as reported by TVP.
According to him, the fund's owners had access to millions of dollars, which they wanted to use to finance protests, violence, and influence parties.
Cryptocurrencies were chosen not by chance: they provide fast, unrestricted payments that are difficult to trace. Popșoi said that this is just one episode of a large-scale intervention campaign by Moscow.
At the same time, the minister noted that Moldova has become more resilient to such schemes than five or six years ago, but disinformation and Russia's schemes still influence the situation inside the country.
At the end of November, the spokesman for the Parliament of Moldova, Igor Grosu, stated that Russia invested nearly €400 million in attempts to buy seats in parliament for its allies in the September elections.
Despite this, the party "Action and Solidarity" won. It received 50.16% of the voters' votes.
Already in December, the police of Moldova reported over fifty new searches in the case regarding the preparation of mass riots during the parliamentary elections in the country, Moldovan media NewsMaker wrote.
