Two accountants involved in bank fraud to be on trial in Moldova

Chisinau, 2 July /MOLDPRES/ - A file on two persons accused of involvement in bank fraud and the laundering of over 13 billion lei (one euro is 21.37 lei) has been finished and sent to court.

According to the Prosecutor’s Office for Combating Organized Crime and Special Causes (PCCOCS), the two persons are charged with the fact that, in 2011-2014, while acting as accountants, they participated in the attaching legal aspect to transactions of purloining financial means, which had at the basis the getting of over 40 bank bad loans. The loans were contracted for seven companies, from Banca de Economii (Savings Bank), Banca Sociala (Social Bank) and Unibank.    

The loans were provided by ignoring the criteria established and through full derogation of the procedures and policies of commercial banks and of the National Bank of Moldova (BNM), including through influencing by the crime ring of decision-makers from the aforementioned banks.

Prosecutors consider that the money was purloined by the members of the crime ring led Ilan Shor, as part of the criminal organization led by Vladimir Plahotniuc. The financial means got were transferred to non-resident companies, with the destination: payments for construction materials, digital equipment, brand clothing or furniture.     

The defendants are a man and a woman aged between 35 and 45 years. They are from Chisinau and have financial and banking education. If found guilty, they run the risk of getting from five to ten years of imprisonment.  

photo: Prosecutor General’s Office