The Criminal Assets Recovery Agency (CARA) under the NAC has announced the freezing assets worth 2,6 lei, during the previous week. It is about the assets of illegal origin that were seized within a criminal case, initiated for money laundering.

Thus, during the parallel financial investigations, the CARA seized a housing construction worth 931 million lei, residential room, worth 770 thousand lei, nonresidential of 106 thousand lei, a building plot of over 822 thousand lei. The total amount of frozen assets is 2 630 302 lei. Also, during the last week, the CARA finalized 4 delegations on 4 criminal cases regarding 5 subjects; drafted 5 analytical notes about 26 persons and drafted 2 advisory opinions on the valuation of 6 real estate.

We remind, that since the beginning of this year, the Criminal Assets Recovery Agency has seized assets, illegally obtained, worth over 50 million lei, but in 2020, their number reached 1,5 billion lei.

The Criminal Assets Recovery Agency is an autonomous subdivision under the NAC, specialized in conducting parallel financial investigations, freezing criminal assets, assessing, managing and estimating the value of seized criminal assets.