The Prosecutor's Office has completed a new episode of the criminal case under the general title "Bank fraud", in which the former Governor of the NBM and his two Deputies are accused.
The Anticorruption Prosecutor's Office reported this, without naming the culprits, but noting that in general the former Governor of the NBM and two former Vice-Governors of the NBM are accused of complicity in a particularly large-scale fraud committed with the use of official position by a criminal organization, as well as money laundering on a particularly large scale, using their official position, committed by several persons in favor of the criminal organization. It is noted that at this stage of the criminal investigation, in view of the evidence obtained, prosecutors in the case separated from the main material under the general title "Bank fraud" the criminal case against the former Governor and a former Vice-Governor of the NBM, the criminal investigation against whom was completed. It is specified that with regard to another former Vice-President, the criminal investigation cannot be completed at this time, given his treatment abroad, the circumstances established by the medical documents submitted by his lawyer. Thus, according to the indictment, in 2014, the former head of NBM, as well as two other Vice- Governors, acting in the interests of the criminal organization headed by Vladimir Plahotniuc, developed and implemented a well-defined plan to steal in especially large amounts of funds from the national banking system. According to the Prosecutor's Office, the criminal organization led by Vladimir Plahotniuc consisted of several organized criminal groups, including the organized criminal group headed by Veaceslav Platon, the criminal group headed by Vladimir Andronachi and the organized criminal group headed by Ilan Shor. The latter, in turn, de facto controlled, through intermediaries, Unibank, Banca Socială, Banca de Economii. It is noted that in this way, in 2014, the NBM Governor and his two deputies, as persons affiliated to the criminal organization, removed obstacles and provided the necessary tools to embezzle funds held by Unibank, Banca Socială and Banca de Economii, including by approving persons affiliated to the organized criminal group, led by Ilan Shore, in the management bodies of the mentioned banks and without interfering in the activity of these banks. These actions allowed the members of the criminal organization to steal money in an amount equivalent to about 2,544,782,105.6 lei and to integrate the stolen money into the legal circulation of Moldova and other states. Subsequently, during the criminal investigation, the Ministry of Finance was recognized as a victim and the amount of damage caused by the crime amounted to 13 billion 583 million 717 thousand lei. Similarly, the Ministry of Finance was recognized as a civil plaintiff, given the civil claim filed in the amount of 22 billion 929 million 882 thousand 634.52 lei. Subsequently, the anti-corruption prosecutors, with the sanction of the investigating judge, in order to compensate the damage caused by the crime and the possible special confiscation, have applied a preventive measure of seizure of property of the Ex-Governor of the NBM in the total value of 1,684,072.01 lei and, respectively, of the assets of the Ex-Vice Governors of the NBM in the total value of 2,480,660.3 lei. // 04.07.2022 – InfoMarket
