Renato Usatîi
Renato Usatîi (born 4 November 1978 in Fălești) is a Moldovan businessman and politician, since 13 April 2014 the chairman of Our Party, a left-wing populist opposition party.[1] In 2015, he was elected the mayor of Bălți with the support of around 72% of votes.[2] He is a leader of the pro-Russian opposition in Moldova.[3]
Usatîi graduated in foreign languages from the Bălți State University. In 2005 he started his own business, founding in Russia ″VPT-NN″, a company producing railway equipment. Since 2011, he was the major stakeholder of Universalbank, one of the major banks of Moldova.[4]
In July 2014, Russian banker German Gorbuntsov accused Renato Usatîi of hiring a gunman to kill him.[5]
On 23 October 2015 Usatîi was arrested in Chișinău and charged with illegal tampering of phone of Vlad Filat, the former prime-minister who himself was arrested for corruption charges. Usatîi confessed he indeed published the phone records but that he thinks it is a necessary measure in order to save the country from corruption.[6] On 25 October he was released; the charges were not dismissed.[7]
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