Irina Vlah, leader of the Heart of Moldova party, has demanded the immediate resignation of Energocom’s management and the government officials responsible.
The trigger was Prime Minister Vasile Tofan’s public admission that mistakes had been made when purchasing natural gas. Vlah issued a detailed statement listing her complaints against the state-owned energy company.
“Energocom’s management and the responsible government officials must resign immediately!” Vlah declared.
She said the prime minister’s admission was not enough.
“Simply admitting that mistakes were made is not enough. Citizens and the national economy are paying the direct price for these mistakes,” the politician stressed.
Irina Vlah listed specific examples of Energocom’s activities. The government guaranteed the company a loan of €400 million. One of the loan’s aims was to purchase gas in advance. “But that did not happen,” she claims.
According to Vlah, Energocom made a profit of around 1.2 billion lei over the past two years, “while tariffs for citizens continued to rise.” She also highlighted the company’s own spending. In 2026 alone, Energocom planned to spend more than 100 million lei on goods and services.
“The company was forced to abandon some of these purchases after I made the figures public and public pressure followed,” she said.
Another issue concerns the purchase of government securities.
“Energocom spent significant sums buying government securities instead of purchasing natural gas in time,” the statement says.
Earlier, Vasile Tofan publicly admitted that the government and Energocom had made mistakes when purchasing gas. He said the cabinet and the company “did not make sufficient efforts to secure long-term contracts in advance.”
His admission came amid criticism from the parliamentary opposition. In February, Deputy Speaker Vlad Batrîncea said:
“In the summer, instead of buying gas for the whole year at the lowest price, the government was busy with newspapers. As a result, citizens are buying gas in the autumn at the highest prices of the season.”
He also drew attention to the revenues of state-owned energy companies. “Energocom earns hundreds of millions of lei every month,” he said.
Later, at the end of September, Batrîncea raised the issue again in Parliament:
“When will we start taking surgical measures to get rid of the so-called intermediary companies that operate through the territory of the Republic of Moldova, transport gas, and have raised its price almost tenfold?”
Energy Minister Dorin Junghietu previously rejected the allegations against Energocom. He said the company had purchased gas “in accordance with the approved strategy and through competitive procedures.” According to him, “more than 70% of the final tariff consists of the cost of gas purchased on the international market.”
Junghietu also insisted that the EBRD loan had been used strictly for its intended purpose:
“Not a single leu from the loan was used to purchase government securities.” According to his explanation, the securities were purchased “using the company’s own liquid funds as the most reliable short-term investment instrument, until those funds were needed for purchases.”
