
The Prosecutor General's Office opened a criminal case on the theft of state funds through criminal schemes in the process of importing electricity to Moldova, which caused especially large scale damage to the state.
According to the ministry, during the investigation of the criminal case, it was established that in early 2008, the responsible persons of JSC Energocom, the company responsible for providing Moldova with electricity, by prior conspiracy and agreement with officials of the Ministry of Economy and Infrastructure, the National Regulatory Agency in the energy sector, as well as other persons, including from abroad, introduced a criminal scheme, by which they embezzled state funds totaling $11 million 927 thousand 173, which was equivalent to 123 million 957 thousand 916 lei. According to the materials of the case, the implemented scheme allowed its participants to steal state funds by unreasonably increasing the purchase price of electricity and appropriating the difference in price. Given the complexity of the case, which concerns the energy security of the state, by order of the Prosecutor General, a criminal investigation was ordered by a group of prosecutors from the Prosecutor General's Office. // 13.09.2021 – InfoMarket