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A group of 5 people, consisting of employees of a banking institution and insolvency administrators, detained by the NAC and the AP
07.10.2022
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Five people, including two employees of a commercial bank and three authorized administrators, were detained by the NAC and anti-corruption prosecutors, after this morning's searches. The suspects are being investigated in several cases of money laundering, fraud, abuse of office and forgery, being suspected of having illegally alienated dozens of assets pledged or mortgaged to the bank, thus causing damages of millions to customers.
According to the materials of the investigation and preliminary investigations, it was established that, starting with 2017, a group of authorized administrators, together with two employees of a financial institution, organized a criminal plan through which they dispossessed the ex-debtors of the banking institution of their movable assets and pledged or mortgaged real estate. Although the bank sold all the debts to foreign companies and they no longer had any rights to the pledged assets, the suspects, through fraud, continued to use the assets and even alienate them.
During the criminal investigation, it was also found that several pledged goods were undervalued and sold at prices much lower than their real value, and the buyers were people affiliated with the criminal group. Only in one case, the group would have managed to cause a damage of more than 10 million lei, following the undervaluation of a house. The investigators claim that the number of illegally alienated assets and the damages to the injured parties could increase to tens of millions of euros, and other people would also be involved in the scheme.
Thus, for October 7, 19 searches were authorized at homes, work offices and cars used by the suspects, as well as criminal prosecution actions in some offices of the banking entity. As a result, three authorized administrators and two employees of the bank were detained for 72 hours.
The informational support was provided by the Information and Security Service, whereas the Anticorruption Prosecutor's Office is leading the criminal investigation.