Plahotniuc, summoned as a witness for the prosecution in the "kuliok" case in which former president Igor Dodon is being tried.

The Supreme Court of Justice of the Republic of Moldova decided, in the session on January 12, 2026, to hear the oligarch Vladimir Plahotniuc and Serghei Iaralov as witnesses for the prosecution in the "kuliok" case, in which former president Igor Dodon is being tried. The case involves accusations of passive corruption and illegal financing of a political party, acts that are alleged to have been committed in June 2019. The case has been restarted from scratch after a judge was changed in the panel, and the court is set to establish the schedule for the witness hearings, which also includes several former high-ranking officials from the Republic of Moldova.