Four foreign citizens put on trial in Moldova for swindle on FOREX market

16:33 | 06.09.2018 Category: Social

Chisinau, 6 September /MOLDPRES/ - The Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office today informed that it had completed and sent to court a criminal file opened against four foreign citizens suspected of having caused damages worth over 12 million to more Moldovans.

According to the aforementioned prosecutor’s office, those four suspects in June 2016 – November 2017 organized a scheme of fraud, within which they were acting as would-be brokers of companies carrying out exchange activities on FOREX online platforms. Thus, they prompted more Moldovan citizens to invest money in different financial operations. In fact, the exchange activity was simulated and fraudulently managed on online platforms.

In the wake of these alleged “transactions,” people were losing all money invested and the damage inflicted by the defendants amounts to more than 12 million lei. The suspects are under preventive arrest and claim not guilty; if found guilty, they run the risk of being sentenced to 10-15 years of imprisonment.

(Reporter A. Zara, editor M. Jantovan)

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