“Chisinau International Airport is an aeronautical agent that will interact with many people from aviation, airlines. That office will be used, including as a protocol office where we will have the opportunity to talk with airlines, with other aeronautical agents. We have to keep it. It was built with money from operating activity, so we need to preserve it, preserve it and use it,” Vozian said.
AGORA recalls that, starting in 2013, Chisinau International Airport came under the management of a company led by oligarch Ilan Șor, based on a public-private partnership contract. The Avia Invest company has committed to invest around 250 million euros in the modernization of the airport over the next 49 years.
In 2020, the Public Property Agency retroactively canceled the concession contract concluded with Avia Invest. In November 2022, the magistrates at the Chisinau Court of Appeal decide that the airport returns to state management. On the other hand, the concessionaire company says that the decision would be illegal, taken under political pressure, and states that it will appeal to the Supreme Court of Justice.
On March 27, based on an order of the Public Property Agency, the official takeover of the airport’s assets begins. Later, the president Maia Sandu would declare that during the 9 years of the concession, the state would have lost 1.6 billion lei.
