MK: Karina Turcan tried to sell a power plant in Transnistria to the Romanians

Former top manager of Inter RAO Karina Turcan, arrested on espionage charges, deliberately reduced the productivity of the Moldavian State District Power Plant in order to sell it piecemeal to Romania. about this “Moskovsky Komsomolets” writes with reference to the recordings of Tsurkan’s negotiations, which were at the disposal of the editors.

Kommersant wrote that Tsurkan was responsible for the business of Inter RAO in Moldova, in particular the Moldavian State District Power Plant in Transnistria and the supply of electricity from there to Chisinau.

Moskovsky Komsomolets writes that the station is equipped with four turbines, but in recent years only one of them has been operating at the power plant. The station itself, according to the publication, did not generate electricity, but only transported it from Russia and Ukraine for export.

According to the newspaper, with the arrival of Boris Kovalchuk (son of the owner of Rossiya Bank, Yuri Kovalchuk - MZ) to the post of head of Inter RAO, Tsurkan began to supervise the Moldavian State District Power Plant, and the station began to fall into “desolation.” In particular, the station was switched from Russian to Ukrainian fuel. In 2013, Tsurkan received two awards for organizing the supply of electricity from the Moldavian State District Power Plant and for completing a “particularly important task.”

The newspaper provides a transcript of Tsurkan’s alleged negotiations with a man named Yaroslav, whom MK calls an agent of the Romanian secret services. The publication suggests that Turcan and Yaroslav are discussing the terms of the sale of the state district power plant to Romania.

“We are suppressing the asset, which gives additional profitability to one of the shareholders. At the same time, we did not sell this asset because the long installment plan also needs to be discussed. In fact, we didn’t sell, but we are losing control. We will also need to justify commercial management when purchasing 50%. Why are we transferring commercial management and what does this mean, not to mention the risks of how the President of Transnistria will look at it. Therefore, we need to find something in between,” Moskovsky Komsomolets allegedly quotes Tsurkan as saying.

According to the newspaper, the investigation is now trying to establish the involvement of Deputy Energy Minister Vyacheslav Kravchenko in the “Tsurkan case”. MK also writes that “searches were carried out.”

Turcan's arrest became known on June 19. A top manager of an energy holding was accused of espionage (Article 276 of the Criminal Code). She refused to admit and said that the criminal case against her was “part of someone’s game.”

A member of “Team 29,” lawyer Ivan Pavlov, who represents Turcan’s interests, wrote that the former top manager is accused of transferring to the Moldovan intelligence service a secret document from the Ministry of Energy, which concerns “certain aspects of the actions” of Russian energy companies. Pavlov called other versions published in publications “nonsense.”

Earlier, RBC sources said that Turcan is suspected of transmitting information to Romania about negotiations regarding the supply of electricity to the territory of Crimea and Donbass. RIA Novosti's interlocutors argued that the criminal case is about the transfer of information about the Akkuyu nuclear power plant construction project in Turkey.