PCCOCS sued former special administrator of Unibank

Chisinau, Dec. 20 / MOLDPRES /- The Prosecutor's Office for Combating Organized Crime and Special Cases (PCCOCS) announced today that it has completed its criminal investigation and sued one of the criminal cases generically called "bank fraud of state-guaranteed funds" regarding the special administrator of Unibank .

According to the PCCOCS, the defendant held a senior position in the National Bank of Moldova in the field of preventing and combating money laundering, and for the period 2014-2015, he was delegated as a special administrator of Unibank, in order to recover the precarious financial situation created in this institution. , resulting from bank fraud. It was to identify the source of the funds in the Unibank depositors' accounts and to determine whether the latter were not affiliated with the bank and whether the funds in those accounts did not come from money laundering. The administrator was to inform the Special Commission for the purpose of analyzing the balances in the accounts of natural and legal persons with private capital on these matters.

According to the prosecutors, the special administrator deliberately concealed, in his communication with the Special Commission, the fact that the money in the amount of over 75 million lei from the accounts of a non-resident legal entity, which were blocked, came from both bank affiliates and fraud bank from Banca de Economii. As a result of the Commission's misleading, this allowed Unibank's special administrator to unblock the accounts; and taking into account that at that time Unibank did not have the financial means, the money was released from the account of state-guaranteed guarantees.

According to the PCCOC, the action was taken by the special administrator given that the information on "bank fraud" was already known in April 2015 from the Kroll I report, while the release and withdrawal of money took place in May 2015.

The special administrator of Unibank is being investigated for abuse of office in the interest of a criminal organization. According to the law, this crime is punishable by imprisonment from 3 to 7 years, with deprivation of the right to hold certain positions for a term of 10 years and 15 years.