Prosecutor General's Office to investigate situation of banking sector in Moldova

13:47 | 29.05.2015 Category: Social

Chisinau, 29 May /MOLDPRES/ - A special panel, made up of prosecutors and criminal investigators to examine the situation at the Banca de Economii (Savings Bank), Banca Sociala (Social Bank) and Unibank, will check these institutions’ activity starting from 2007 till present. The head of the Anticorruption Prosecutor's Office, Eduard Harunjen, made statements to this effect in a press conference today.

According to Harunjen, anti-corruption prosecutors have recently conducted a string of searches at the Moldovan parliament, government, National Bank, Finance Ministry, National Commission of Financial Market (CNPF), Public Property Agency (APA), where they collected "the documents dealing with the correspondence between state bodies at the time the problems arose in the banking system, transcripts, records, reports, notifications which led to the drafting and adoption of decisions concerning the problems in the banking system."

At the same time, Harunjen noted that the authorities levied a distraint upon properties of suspects in this case, to "partly return the inflicted damage."

The prosecution group's leader, Andrian Popenco, said that, on the next period, the group members would check how the process of de-capitalization began at the three banks, who and how devised the embezzlement scheme, how bad loans were provided, how the management council was changed at Banca de Economii in 2012, state actions to halt the crisis, how to inject money into the three banks and others.

Anti-corruption Prosecutor Adriana Betisor said that prosecutors would soon heard representatives of all boards of BEM from 2007 until now, the National Bank's (BNM) management and BNM civil servants, representatives of the four governments in the past eight years, prime ministers, ministers, MPs, politicians, representatives of commissions that conducted surveys at BEM, CNPF members, APP and others.

Prosecutor General Corneliu Gurin ruled to extend the investigation of the fraud in the banking sector on 21 May.

(Reporter C. Russu, Editor A. Raileanu)

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