On Sunday, Evenimentul Zilei reported that Invensis Soft, a company of businessman Arcadie Topalo, is asking a court for interest from Alimentarmaș SA, a Chișinău plant in insolvency since December 2007. The article does not cite a judgment in the company’s favour. The interest sum given by the paper is 9,221,614 lei, and the purchased claim is put at 7,301,357 lei. Together, EVZ adds them to 16,493,767 lei, which the paper converts to 818,248 euro.

According to the report, Invensis Soft bought the claim from the National Social Insurance House in February 2022. In February 2025 it sued for 9,221,614 lei, presented as delay interest at 0.1 percent of the debt for each day, running from the day of the assignment contract. Asked by the paper, lawyer Dionis Pascari declined to comment.

The same report describes the plant: more than six hectares in Chișinău’s industrial area, an office block of over 5,000 square metres and production and commercial space of over 38,000. The shares, again according to EVZ: a little over 30 percent held by the state, 40 percent by ICS Activrecargado SRL, whose sole shareholder is Frumoss Proiectare SRL of Romania, 8 percent split among seven companies, and the remaining 21 percent owned by more than 2,500 individuals. Insolvency is said to have opened in December 2007, at the request of Iurie Kontievskii, over debts of 7 million lei. EVZ places Kontievskii in the circle of Veaceslav Platon.

The paper summarises insolvency law this way: once the procedure opens, individual enforcement and payments to creditors are suspended, and the liquidator pays only in the order set by law. Article 116, as EVZ renders it, says that claims arising after the procedure opens do not gain interest, increases or penalties. The insurance house, cited by EVZ, says the assignment contract does not provide for calculating new penalties: the base claim and the existing penalties were assigned, not the institution’s powers.

Nichita Ipate, representing Alimentarmaș, told EVZ that the Constitutional Court has already ruled on article 116 and that the challenge filed by Invensis Soft’s lawyers is “a method of delay”. He says four judges refused the request and judge Galușceac accepted it, and he adds the impression that “they kept trying until they found the right judge”. Ștefan Topal, the liquidator’s lawyer, told the paper: “I have no mandate to speak to you.”

Albert Puiu, the Moldovan representative of the Romanian company ROSE A.C., tells EVZ that the claim of more than nine million has no evidence and is against the law, that the company’s offer is blocked by the case, and that he asked for ROSE A.C. to join as an accessory intervenor. The paper writes that ROSE A.C. wanted to pay 8.6 million lei so the plant could leave insolvency, and that former administrator Veaceslav Timotin, whose licence was withdrawn, filed a complaint with the anti-corruption centre, after which the Romanian entrepreneur ended up with a money-laundering file in Chișinău. That is EVZ’s account, not a court finding.

Topalo’s company has its own version, published by IPN: it says it bought National Social Insurance House claims of 8,344,077 lei, a different sum from the one in EVZ, and it accuses a group around ROSE A.C. and Activrecargado. Paranteze.md later wrote that a tax-service freeze in a check linked to ROSE A.C. was revoked by State Tax Service decision no. 243 of 16 April 2026, and that the labels of “scheme” or of a link to Platon, in the Invensis statement, are not court rulings.

In 2017 Topalo was sentenced to five years in prison, suspended, for money laundering, and was amnestied for tax evasion and pseudo-entrepreneurial activity, according to a Cu Sens investigation. Separately, on 4 September 2026, PCCOCS and the State Tax Service announced a tax-evasion and money-laundering scheme of more than 17 million lei at electronics firms in Chișinău. The statement does not name Topalo. It says the manager and the accountant of one firm were detained, and that the people concerned have the presumption of innocence. EVZ ties the file to his holding.

The photograph shows the Supreme Court of Justice in Chișinău, on Petru Rareș Street 18. The author is Photobank MD, and the image is on Wikimedia Commons under a CC0 licence. It is not the hearing in the Alimentarmaș case, and it is not the plant.

Source consulted: Insolvenţă în Republica Moldova. Afaceristul Arcadie Topalo vrea milioane de lei de la o companie cu capital de stat, în proces de faliment. Video.