Renato Usatîi
| Renato Usatîi | |
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| Mayor of Bălți | |
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Assumed office 2 July 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Vasili Panciuc |
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| Born |
Renato Usatîi 4 November 1978 Fălești, Moldovan SSR, USSR |
| Citizenship |
Moldova Russia |
| Nationality | Moldova |
| Political party |
Partidul Nostru (2014-) „PaRUs” (2014) „Patria” (2014) |
| Alma mater | Alecu Russo State University of Bălți |
| Occupation | Businessman, politician, philanthropist |
| Website | http://ru1.md |
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. In 2015, he was elected the mayor of Bălți with the support of around 72% of votes. He is a leader of the pro-Russian opposition in Moldova.
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.
In July 2014, Russian banker German Gorbuntsov accused Renato Usatîi of hiring a gunman to kill him.
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. On 25 October he was released; the charges were not dismissed.
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