More than half of seizures applied by ARBI in recent years relate to theft of billion

Chisinau, 21 October /MOLDPRES/- Over 4 billion lei is the value of the assets, identified by the Agency for the Recovery of Criminal Assets, in criminal cases on bank fraud in 2018-2021.

According to the CNA data, out of the total amount of 6,181,723,631 lei of criminal assets, on which seizures were applied, 4,006,501,321 lei were made unavailable in criminal cases -"bank fraud". Other assets, estimated at 2,175,222,310 lei, were seized by ARBI in criminal cases of corruption, money laundering, embezzlement, smuggling, trafficking in human beings, etc.

At the top of the list of ARBI investigations were the money laundering cases, in which goods were made unavailable, estimated at about 1.7 billion lei. These are followed by seizures in corruption cases - around 201 million lei; scams and embezzlement - 139 million lei; smuggling - over 55 million lei, illicit enrichment - 21 million lei, human trafficking - about 18 million lei and others.

In recent years, ARBI has made unavailable 2,273 agricultural and construction lands, 3 aircraft, 748 buildings and 351 means of transport. Seizures were also applied to bank accounts, cash, share packages and share capital, as well as calculation techniques. An absolute premiere for the Republic of Moldova is the unavailability of the cryptocurrency, amounting to 110,552 lei.