Recognizing the significance of the United States relationship with the Republic of Moldova and encouraging United States support for anti-corruption efforts and strengthening democratic institutions.

calls on the United States Government and the European Union to ensure that free and fair presidential elections are held in Moldova on October 30, 2016;

encourages the President and the Department of State to restrict assistance designated for Moldova to only justice sector reform, anti-corruption efforts, and strengthening democratic institutions as long as corruption within the government ranks persist;

urges the Executive Branch agencies that have initiated investigations to pursue all available avenues to determine if the United States banking system, with involvement by United States citizens was used to launder money as part of the Moldovan banking scandal, if United States taxpayer dollars in the form of IMF loans were directed to sanctioned entities; and what if any members of the Government of Moldova, recipients of United States foreign aid, participated in, or benefitted from, the 2014 bank heist, including Vladimir Plahotniuc;

calls on those Executive Branch agencies to report the results of those investigations to the United States Congress upon completion;

requests that, if as a result of said investigations, individuals or entities, including Vladimir Plahotniuc, Andrian Candu, the speaker of the Moldovan Parliament, Mihai Poalelungi, the chairman of the Moldovan Supreme Court of Justice; Eduard Harunjen, the acting Moldovan attorney general, Viorel Chetraru, the general director of Moldova’s National Anti-Corruption Center, Viorel Morari, the chief of Moldova’s Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s office, Vladimir Cebotari, Moldova’s Minister of Justice, Alexandru Jizdan, Moldova’s Minister of Internal Affairs, Serghei Iaralov, Ion Plesca, the President of Chisinau’s Court of Appeal, and Dorin Damir, the President of the Fighting and Entertainment Association of Moldova, are found to have participated in the laundering of funds from entities or governments sanctioned by the United States, that the United States consider imposing sanctions on those individuals and entities to the extent that United States law allows, including the ban of travel to the United States, economic sanctions, and the freezing of assets; and

establish through legislation, or via the authority given under Presidential Proclamation 7750, a list similar to the one created by the Magnitsky Act for Vladimir Plahotniuc and other government officials if they are found to have been involved in the abovementioned crimes.