PANews reported on March 10 that, according to Decrypt, Moldova's National Anti-Corruption Center has uncovered a crypto scheme involving approximately $107 million aimed at influencing the country's 2025 parliamentary elections. The funds were transferred through non-custodial crypto wallets and used to pay for candidate campaigning, voter bribery, and mobilizing protests.

Investigations reveal that the funds originated from two centralized crypto platforms in Russia and Kyrgyzstan, whose wallets and accounts are subject to international sanctions. TRM Labs analysis indicates that the operation is linked to Russian-backed foreign influence activities, with transactions traced to the Kyrgyz exchange TokenSpot, which is associated with the sanctioned Russian exchange Garantex, forming a larger ecosystem for evading Russian sanctions.