Moldova State University (USM) and the construction company Lagmar-Impex SRL started a few years ago a large investment for infrastructure development of the educational institution that would end in 2018. Under the project, the company committed to renovating many dormitories for students and a classroom block. Instead, USM ceded 2 plots in the center of the capital. Here, the company raised a huge residential complex which sells apartments, whose prices start from 444 euros/ 1 square meter. A year ago, the "business" came into sight of Anticorruption prosecutors and officers. The police suspected that the public tender for the investment project was rigged. The case beats time. While prosecutors argue that they gather further evidence, rector of USM, the only person charged in this criminal case, is confident that it is about a political command.  

Late last year, Moldova State University (USM) has reopened the classroom block No. 2 of the institution, located at the intersection Banulescu Bodoni and Mihail Kogalniceanu, where the faculty of Law was recently transferred. Historic monument of national importance, the building was renovated from December 2014 to December 2015 under an investment project of infrastructure development of USM.

"We changed the design of the hall, we restored the marble stairs and oak doors and a lift for disabled students were installed. It is a social building and a historic monument.   We were lucky to select namely this company - Lagmar-Impex. I am thankful to this company and to general director”, said the then rector of USM Gheorghe Ciocanu. Representatives of the construction company said that the block was rebuilt almost from scratch. "It was a challenge for us and an impetus to go ahead because, so far we have not had a chance to rebuild historic buildings", said Viorel Godea, general manager of Lagmar-Impex.

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Shortly,  Lagmar Impex completed renovation works of the dormitory No. 10 of USM, on str. Gheorghe Casu 32. After nearly a year of repairs, the building with a capacity of about 130 seats, offers to students in exchange of  700 lei per month, almost three times  better conditions than old dormitories. Renovation works in the dormitory Nb. 11 completed in July.  Dormitories No. 12 and 13 will be renovated by the end of 2018. All these are part of a project of infrastructure development of State University, which authorities started three years ago.

Provisions of the project of infrastructure development of USM 

The works started after in March 2013, the Government Filat issued a decision by which they decided to transmit from public to private ownership 2 plots in the center of the capital, both of them were managed by USM. The first, on str. Pan Halippa 6, has a surface of 1.0874 hectares, where 5 dormitories of the university (No.5, 6, 7, 8, 9) are placed,  each  dormitory has a surface of about 500 - 550  square meters, according to data from Cadastre. Other plot with a surface of 3.1126 hectares is on str. Gheorghe Caşu, and there are 9 buildings of the university, dormitories No. 10, 11, 12, 13 and 16, up to 600 square meters each. 

The company that was supposed to become owner of the plots was required to restore classroom block at the intersection of Metropolitan Banulescu Bodoni and M. Kogalniceanu, to rebuild four dormitories (Nb.10, 11, 12, 13) on str. Gheorghe Casu, 32 and a dormitory for young specialists, employees of USM.  Instead, the company had the possibility to build new residential blocks on these 2 plots, 1.08 hectares and 0.71 hectares respectively and a number of apartments to sell to USM employees at a preferential price.  Also, a library and a student cafeteria were supposed to be arranged in these blocks. According to the decision, the investor would perform all the works of its own money. A year later, in July 2014, the Government issued another decision that annulled the provision under which the investor was forced to rebuild the dormitory for young specialists.