Several pieces of evidence were collected yesterday by the NAC officers following the 10 searches carried out in the money laundering case, resulting from a historical appropriation of 75.11% of the Republic of Moldova's patrimony, held within the joint stock company "Mioara" in the municipality Bălți. Thus, as a result of the criminal investigation, 3 mobile phones, an information storage server, a memory stick, a map with documents relating to the transactions, as well as the contracts by which the assets of S.A. Miora.

Previously, the sum of 1,500,000 euros was identified, transferred by the suspect, in small installments (below the reporting limit), to an account in a bank in Romania. Today, the prosecutors will decide on the preventive arrest of the detained person.

We remind that the NAC under the leadership of the Chisinau Municipal Prosecutor's Office and the support of the Office for Prevention and Fight against Money Laundering (OPFML) is investigating the involvement of a group of people with various functions within S.A. Mioara from the municipality of Balti in a money laundering scheme. According to the accumulated evidence, the company's assets, consisting of a complex of production buildings and a land plot of 8 hectares, were appropriated by a group of people who subsequently carried out cross transactions and concluded bad loans. Although the acts of misappropriation of the state property of the Republic of Moldova were ascertained by a final and irrevocable decision of the SCJ in 2016, the group of persons came into the ownership of real estate, part of which was alienated in exchange for about 80 million lei, of which was to benefit the state.

At the moment, the case is being investigated in all aspects, and several people will be interviewed.