The National Bank of Moldova will demand the Russian Gazprombank to return the $100 million illegally withdrawn from the correspondent accounts of Banca de Economii.
Prosecutor General Alexandr Stoianoglo told about this while submitting online to the European Parliament the report on the investigation of the "theft of the billion" case. He noted that a criminal case was initiated on the illegal withdrawal of these funds from correspondent accounts while using fake orders, and the National Bank of Moldova will soon file a civil suit against Gazprombank to recover from it $100 million withdrawn from Banca de Economii within the “theft of the billion". Alexandr Stoianoglo also stressed that the prosecutors have collected "incontestable evidence that the main beneficiary of the" theft of the billion "was Vladimir Plahotniuc, along with Ilan Shor, and earlier the investigation was sabotaged by ex-Prosecutor General Eduard Harunjen and the former head of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office Viorel Morari who directed the course of the investigation in favor of Plahotniuc. The Prosecutor General also asked for help from European and international structures to investigate the "theft of the billion" case to check the work of troubled banks and employees of the National Bank, since the investigation still does not know for certain which loans were granted in reality and which ones were issued virtually, and Moldovan prosecutors need help in international cooperation to clarify the situation. This is especially true in respect of the UK and Cyprus. // 15.06.2021 - InfoMarket
