CRIMINAL CASE AGAINST NBM EX-HEAD AND HIS DEPUTY REFERRED TO COURT

The criminal case against the ex-President of the National Bank of Moldova Dorin Dragutanu and his Deputy Ion Sturza on an episode of the one-billion-dollar banking fraud was submitted to the court by investigators from of the Anti-Corruption Prosecution Service.

According to the Prosecutor General's Office, the investigation found out that in 2014 they were accomplices in a theft of 2.5 billion lei from Banca de Economii, Banca Sociala and Unibank, when they used their official position in favor of a criminal community led by currently fugitive oligarch Vlad Plahotniuc.

They are now charged not only with the said grand theft, but also with laundering the means and putting them into circulation not only abroad, but also in Moldova.

Prosecutors seized the property of the NBM ex-President and his Deputy total worth 4.1 million lei.

With regard to another NBM ex-Vice President, Emma Tabirta, criminal investigation cannot be completed, as she is abroad. The charge against her has been sent to the country she is in.