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Within the coverage of the town’s Day, Ilan Shor appears from the very first moments, placing flowers at the monument of Vasile Lupu. The mayor stated that ‘In three years, we have managed to make Orhei the most prosperous town in the country’ and promised urban residents that ‘Every Orhei citizen will soon live as in Monaco’.
Also, journalists broadcast images from OrheiLand amusement park, where the interviewees only praised the local authorities and, in particular, expressed their admiration for Ilan Shor. ‘Ilan Shor makes beautiful things for our town’, a young interviewee said. ‘It’s all very beautifully arranged thanks to our mayor, Ilan Shor’, another interviewee claimed. ‘No doubt that the town is led by a true leader’, another person said about the mayor of Orhei.
The deputy mayors of Orhei appeared in the next coverage, speaking about the authorities’ achievements under Shor’s leadership, and about other things. Deputy mayor Reghina Apostolova thanked the Orhei citizens for ‘supporting the mayor and his team’ and in the following articles journalists informed about the paved roads in the locality.
We remind that the director of the two TV stations, Dumitru Chitoroaga, had previously stated that the broadcast grid of the two TV channels ‘will contain only unbiased and impartial news from Moldova and abroad’ and that their editorial policy ‘will stay as far as possible away of politics’.
Media-azi.md wrote that Ilan Shor is the next politician building a media holding – while a large number of TV shows announced at the ‘Orhei TV’ and ‘Central Television’ stations will be hosted by people close to mayor of Orhei.
According to the management of TV stations, funds for such media projects were gathered from the ‘loans made by several individuals and legal entities’, who trust these televisions.
Note that officially, the beneficial owner of the two TV channels is Rita Tvik. According to Anticoruptie.md, she is also the founder of the News Agency Novosti-Moldova [News-Moldova], while her husband – Vladimir Novosadiuc – is the head of Sputnik Moldova Agency. The spouses were mentioned in the report developed by Kroll – the company hired by the Moldovan authorities to investigate the bank frauds. According to the document, Rita Tvik and Vladimir Novasadiuc, both shareholders at Unibank, borrowed MDL 12 million each from Harrogate Consulting LLP. Moreover, the media reported that in 2014 they both acted as intermediaries, helping the mayor of Orhei take over Euro TV and Alt TV.
