Moldova: Investigating cases of cryptocurrency interference in the country's parliamentary elections, involving an amount of $107 million

DeepFlowTech · 2026-03-10T00:32:20+00:00

Moldova's National Anti-Corruption Center reveals a plan to interfere in the 2025 parliamentary elections using cryptocurrency, with a total amount of $107 million. The plan involves complex transactions, converting funds through intermediaries into cash for bribery and voter mobilization, with sources of funds from crypto platforms in Russia and Kyrgyzstan.

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2026-03-10 00:32:20

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Deep Tide TechFlow News, March 10 — According to Decrypt, the Moldovan National Anti-Corruption Center (CNA) revealed a plan to influence the country’s 2025 parliamentary elections using cryptocurrency, involving approximately $107 million.

CNA Director Alexandr Pinzari stated that the plan involves “complex transaction operations” through non-custodial crypto wallets, transferring virtual assets to intermediaries in Moldova, who then exchange them for cash and distribute to local activists for bribing voters, promoting specific candidates, and mobilizing rally participants. The funds trace back to two centralized cryptocurrency platforms in Russia and Kyrgyzstan.

Blockchain analytics firm TRM Labs linked the activity to “Russia-backed foreign influence operation InfoLider” and confirmed that Kyrgyzstan-based crypto exchange TokenSpot is one of the sources of the transactions. TRM Labs previously identified TokenSpot as a front for the sanctioned Russian exchange Garantex, both closely connected to the “Kremlin-supported sanctions evasion ecosystem.”

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