Moldovan Savings Bank's former head gets 30 day-remand
14:54 | 04.12.2015 Category: Social
Chisinau, 4 December /MOLDPRES/-The former head of the Savings Bank (Banca de Economii, BEM), Grigore Gacikevici, today got 30 days of remand, being prosecuted in the case on the BEM frauds. The Buiucani district court of Chisinau took a decision to this effect.
According to prosecutors, the preventive arrest for 30 days has been applied in order “to prevent coordinating the testimony of the defendant with the other participants in the criminal case, which would create different versions of evasion from criminal prosecution or diminishing his criminal role.”
The defendant’s lawyer said that “grounds invoked by the prosecutors have no evidence-based ground”, and would appeal the court decision at the Chisinau-based Court of Appeal within three days.
Grigore Gacikevici is accused of having violated the credit principles in relation to three economic agents, when holding the position of BEM head. The total amount of the loans exceeded 260 million lei. The former head of Banca de Economii was detained for 72 hours on 1 December.
Another four persons with the status of suspect are target in the investigation. It is about former deputy head of BEM, ex-head of Credit Department, former head of the Security Department and the one of the Legal Department. The file was forwarded to court in April 2013.
The prosecutors sent to court another 18 files on providing bad loans by the former BEM management. Tens of files opened on this case are currently in criminal investigation.
More politicians and business people are targeted in the investigation in the file on BEM frauds, and in last October, an entrepreneur was sentenced to four years of imprisonment for fraudulently getting a loan.
(Reporter P. Beregoi, editor L. Alcaza)
