According to UNIMEDIA, the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office of Moldova and employees of the Information and Security Service are conducting searches in the house of the former head of state.

“Searchs are being carried out ... as part of a criminal case initiated on suspicion of committing a crime under Art.

324 (“Passive corruption”), art.

181/2 (“Acceptance of financing of a political party by a criminal organization”), art.

337 (“high treason”) and Art.

330/2 (“Illicit Enrichment”),” Kerpek said.

In May 2020, a video fragment of a meeting between Igor Dodon and the former leader of the Democratic Party of Moldova, Vladimir Plahotniuc and Sergei Yaralov, appeared on the Internet.

They discussed the contents of the black bag that Plahotniuc tried to hand over to Dodon.

The ex-president refused to take it and handed it over to a man named Konstantin, who should give it to Cornel.

Igor Dodon denied the veracity of the discussions in the video, mentioning that the bag was a challenge, he does not know what was in it, and the video was made public through "oligarchic banks".

In January, Dodon called the current Moldovan government the weakest in the history of the country.