The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (PA) announces that on Tuesday, June 26, searches were carried out in more than 10 locations as part of a criminal file opened on the fact of money laundering. As a result of the actions, prosecutors detained one person for 72 hours and seized several documents, technical information storage media, stamps and other objects related to the criminal case under investigation.

According to the law enforcement officers, the suspects have illegally obtained at least 5 334 907 lei over a period of one and a half years.

According to the AP, several persons in the Chisinau municipality have set up and created a fraudulent scheme to legalize the funds obtained from illegal sources of income.

“In this regard, they would have created and registered several legal entities with different founders, but the companies were actually managed by one and the same person, they had common addresses at the subdivisions where they operate, being located on 3 addresses in Chisinau municipality.

Further, the money of one of these companies that provided IT services, coming from the avoidance of payment of taxes and duties to the state, as well as from fictitious transactions concluded with other legal entities, under the pretext of its provision by other companies involved in this harmful scheme of vulcanization, ornamenting and other services, were transferred fictitiously between the investigated legal entities, thus the respective money was subsequently introduced into the legal circuit”, the Prosecutor’s Office states.