The ruling awarding 400,000 lei in compensation to former judge Igor Vornicescu has been challenged in the Chișinău Court of Appeal (Centru office). The former magistrate's legal action became possible after he was cleared of money laundering charges in the Laundromat case in 2020. Vornicescu was the first judge to be convicted in 2021 in this case, for knowingly issuing an unlawful ruling. Anticoruptie.md previously reported that the state may be required to pay millions in moral damages to judges who were previously investigated for complicity in laundering 22 billion US dollars from Russia, but were later cleared of criminal responsibility.

Vornicescu was the first defendant in the Laundromat case to receive a sentence.

In February 2021, he was found guilty of deliberately issuing a decision that violated the law. The ruling was delivered by a panel of judges composed of Irina Țonov, Viorica Dodon, and Alexei Paniș. However, Vornicescu was exempted from criminal liability due to the statute of limitations. The former magistrate contested the ruling.

The Center for Investigative Journalism revealed in an in-depth investigation the circumstances under which judges issued debt enforcement orders. The schemes used were almost identical every time—creditors, debtors, guarantors, and co-signers were offshore companies based in the UK, New Zealand, Belize, and the Russian Federation, while a Moldovan citizen was typically listed as the guarantor. Journalists found that judges were issuing enforcement orders based on photocopies of documents issued by foreign authorities, without any authentication.

On February 15, 2011, Igor Vornicescu issued a ruling legalizing a $200 million debt in favor of Ronida Invest LLP, a UK-based company (case no. 2p/o-126/11). The Moldovan citizen listed as the “debtor” in the ruling was Veaceslav Kolenkovski from Chișinău. Some of the documents filed in Vornicescu’s case were in English, not translated, and not authenticated.