At what stage is the case of the “loan shark” case at the National Anti-Corruption Centre. As of May, Ghenadie Tanas is not subject to preventive measures
The criminal case in which Ghenadie Tanas, the suspended head of the National Anti-Corruption Centre’s (NAC) Prosecution Department, is being investigated for illegal financial activity and false statements, is at the stage of completion of criminal prosecution and parallel financial investigations and will be sent to court in the near future.
According to the press service of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (PA), no preventive measures are currently applied against Ghenadie Tanas. There are five other persons in the case.
“(…) As of May 2023, no preventive measures have been applied against Tanas Ghenadie, following the expiry of the preventive measure – the order not to leave the country – by right (one year), and consequently no new grounds for the application of procedural measures of constraint have been established,” PA representatives say.
In April 2022, PA representatives announced that, since the beginning of the investigation, several prosecution actions and special investigative measures had been carried out with the aim of “fully and objectively investigating the circumstances of the case”, including 29 searches targeting the homes, offices, cars of persons under criminal investigation, as well as the offices of legal entities; authorizing and collecting information from electronic communication providers, banking institutions, notaries and other institutions in 31 cases, with the collection of a total of about 3500 files.
On 8 December 2022, anti-corruption prosecutors and Intelligence and Security Service officers raided the office of the suspended head of the Directorate of Public Prosecutions and several locations, including his family members, who are suspected of complicity in the commission of the alleged crimes.
Ghenadie Tanas has been the subject of several ZdG investigations
In 2017, Tanas was the subject of a ZdG investigation entitled “The loan shark’s deals at the CNA”. ZdG wrote that Ghenadie Tanas owned movable and immovable property whose value exceeded his declared income and that he practiced loan-sharking, lending several people tens of thousands of euros. In at least one case documented by ZdG, Tanas used his mother, a teacher, as a creditor, and in at least four cases Tanas went to court to force the debtors to pay him back some €60,000.
On 2 December 2021, ZdG published a new investigation in which it provided details of the wealth of Ghenadie Tanas, previously referred to from the rostrum of Parliament as the “CNA’s euro millionaire”. Officially, Ghenadie Tanas owns about 100 hectares of agricultural land, and his brother and mother have several parking spaces assigned to a residential block on Natalia Gheorghiu Street in Chisinau. In 2020, the CNA employee moved into his parents’ apartment, purchased in this block ten years ago, bought a new Skoda Superb, which cost him his entire salary and pension taken from the CNA for the last year, and got away with it after a wealth and personal interests check initiated by the National Integrity Authority.
