According to the prosecutors, the criminal prosecution of the case was finished on February 7, 2023, so far the defense has been given a deadline to get acquainted with the materials of the criminal case, which contains 149 volumes.
The announcement was made during the press conference held by the leadership of the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office on April 19.
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.
The prosecutors claim that during 2014, the vice-governor of the National Bank of Romania (named above), as a person affiliated with the criminal organization, removed the obstacles and provided 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 faulty activity of these banks.
Therefore, these facts allowed the members of the criminal organization to embezzle money in the equivalent amount of approximately 2,544,782,105 MDL and to integrate the embezzled money into the legal circuit of the Republic of Moldova and other states.
