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There is limited public information about Dan Pascari. He was an administrator of  Panesta SRL, which is registered at  the same address as One TV. In the 2023 activity report submitted to the Board of Directors, Pascari claimed  that 34% of the TV channel’s  revenue comes from a loan provided by Panesta Group SRL. Panesta Group was established by Nicolae Pavelescu and Eugenia Jelihovschi,  the former director of Prime TV Petru Jelihovschi’s mother. Prime TV’s license is currently suspended, and the station is part of the media empire of oligarch Vlad Plahotniuc. According to the CV presented by the company SFC Media SRL, Dan Pascari has studied law, in 2014-2015 he worked in the Legal Service of some state institutions, and in 2017 - 2021 he was a senior reviewing inspector of the Control Section of the Registration Department of Means of Transport and the Qualification of Drivers. In September 2024, he became an administrator of SRL Rentparc.

Ana Butnariuc is a journalist with 17 years of experience in TV.  She has previously worked as an editor-in-chief of Prime TV. She was previously a reporter at DECA-press and SP newspaper in Bălți, as a correspondent at ProTV Chisinau, as well as editor and producer with Moldovan TV channels Publika TV and Prime TV. She also has a background in pedagogy, with five years of experience as an educator.

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The manager of One TV was Petru Jelihovschi, formerly the administrator of currently suspended Prime TV, which was affiliated with the fugitive politician and oligarch Vlad Plahotniuc.

In a response to the MOM team's request for information, Ana Butnariuc, the administrator of SFC Media SRL, mentioned that in 2023, the company concluded a consulting contract for TV production with Petru Jelihovschi in the context of the launch of the new station ONE TV. The consulting contract ended in July 2024, in connection with Petru Jelihovschi's departure from the country.