The Moldovan oligarch Vladimir Plahotniuc had several fake Romanian documents, respectively two management licenses, two identity cards and a passport. The Romanian police opened a criminal case.
Vladimir Plahotniuc Photo: Reuters
The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MAI) announces that following the data exchange and information carried out through the International Police Cooperation Center, the Greek authorities have sent copies of six identity documents in the possession of Plahotniuc. Five of these would be false, which is why the Romanian Police opened a criminal case.
“Following the checks carried out at the level of the MIA structures, reasonable suspicions regarding a possible counterfeiting of official documents – two identity cards, two management permits and a passport, consisting of their mechanical override, in order to distort the identity of the holder. This intervention on documents represents an unauthorized modification of the identification elements, likely to meet the constituent elements of the offenses of false material in official documents and use of false, meaning that at the level of the Criminal Investigation Directorates a criminal file was opened.”, According to May.
Only a document was authentic, which was released on behalf of Vladimir Plahotniuc.
“The checks carried out at the level of the structures have shown that a single document of the six is authentic and issued by the Romanian state, respectively a passport that was issued on the real name of the respective person, prior to issuing a prohibition on it”, The quoted source shows.
The documents issued by the Romanian authorities
Vladimir Plahotniuc owned 11 passports issued by different states, under false identities such as Antohe Mihai, Al Shaheen Fereyduon or Kirsanov Stanislav. The documents were discovered by the Greek authorities following the bodily searches and those carried out in the villa where the oligarch was hidden.
According to representatives of the General Police Inspectorate (IGP) of the Republic of Moldova, Vladimir Plahotniuc held passports, identity cards and management permits issued by different countries, each with different identity, photography and date of birth.
Thus, it had six driving licenses, two of which were issued by the Romanian authorities:
,,- driving license- Romania, issued on May 7, 2025- Antohe Mihai
– driving license- Romania, issued on February 10, 2020- Antohe Mihai ”.
The oligarch also had four identity cards, two of which were issued by the Romanian authorities.
“ID card (different photography)- Romania, released on March 19, 2024- Antohe Mihai
ID card (different photography)- Romania, released on March 19, 2024- Antohe Mihai ”.
He also had 11 passports in total, issued between 2024–2018, two issued in Romania:
“Passport- Romania, issued on September 9, 2020- Plahotniuc Vladimir
Passport- Romania, released on February 25, 2020- Antohe Mihai ”.
Driving license issued on May 7, 2025
Professor Ștefăniță Radu from Iași writes, on Facebook, that the Romanian Police would have released, in miss, in May 2025, a driving license on behalf of Antohe Mihai, who was actually Plahotniuc, and in March 2025 an identity card, on the same name.
“On May 7, 2025, between the two polls for the election of the President of Romania, the Romanian Police issued the driving license to the Romanian citizen Antohe Mihai. 1 year before, on March 19, 2024, the authorities of the Romanian state had issued an identity card in the same name. He was in fact Vladimir Plahotniuc, a Moldovan convicted, one of the great oligarchs in Chisinau, of course with links to Moscow. The respective, given in general pursuit of interpol and sought by the Moldovan authorities, is a public person, easily recognizable and finances the anti Maia Sandu movement in the Republic of Moldova. Such a step could not be made without political support and inside the Romanian defense system”Wrote Professor Stefaniță Radu, a blogger from Iasi.
