The Criminal Assets Recovery Agency (CARA) under the NAC applied seizures worth over 60 million lei in the criminal case targeting a former vice-governor of the National Bank of Moldova in the bank fraud file case. Among the seized assets made by the Agency are two social capitals, two residential constructions, 61 non-residential constructions, five bank accounts, nine residential and non-residential buildings, 15 agricultural lands and 9 - for construction.

Today, the Anticorruption Prosecutor's Office finished the criminal investigation in which the former vice-governor is accused of complicity in the commission of the crime of fraud, committed with the use of the work situation, by a criminal organization, as well as of money laundering, committed by several people, with the use of the service situation, by a criminal organization, in particularly large proportions.

According to the administered evidence, the prosecutors found that the criminal organization led by Vladimir Plahotniuc was made up of several organized criminal groups, including the organized criminal group led by Ilan Șor. The latter, in turn, controlled de facto, through interposed persons, the banks BC Unibank SA, BC Banca Socială SA, Banca de Economii SA.

Therefore, during 2014, the vice-governor of the National Bank of Moldova, as a person affiliated with the criminal organization, removed the obstacles and granted the necessary tools to carry out the embezzlement of money at the disposal of BC Unibank SA, BC Banca Socială SA and Banca de Economii SA, including by approving in the management bodies of the mentioned banks the persons affiliated to the organized criminal group led by Ilan Șor and by not intervening in the defective activity of these banks.

These facts allowed the members of the criminal organization to embezzle money in the equivalent amount of approximately 2,544,782,105.6 MDL and to integrate the embezzled money into the legal circuit of the Republic of Moldova and other states.